Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
gardening & landscaping

water, water, everywhere

It has been raining like every day this month. I haven’t been able to plant anything for a couple of weeks (and given all of the rain, the potatoes and onions are probably rotting in the ground). Nor have I gotten much done outside. Everything’s so wet. Ugh. It’s not just me, the farmers haven’t planted yet either according to an article in the local paper.

I’m assuming that the weather will turn around at some point, so I’m moving forward wherever I can. One of my friends sent me a variety of tomato seeds (and also some gherkin seeds–I’ve never planted those before) this week so I planted all of them last night, with the assumption that I will be able to garden by the end of May.

NOAA weather is again calling for rain every day this week until Friday, on which it will be 58 degrees. Great.

movies

the town

This movie was directed by Ben Affleck, who was also the lead actor. It was a “heist” movie which is a subject matter that Brian and I typically enjoy. While I have never been a big Affleck fan, I thought he did really well in this movie. He also directed Gone Baby Gone which I thought was pretty good, too. So, I guess I’m going to have to keep an eye on his movies in the future.

out and about

johnstown generals

Last night, we took Jake and one of his friends to a Johnstown Generals game. The boys had a blast, as they always do. I’m not sure of Brian’s opinion of the game, but I was a little underwhelmed. It was not as polished as I was expecting and the play was not quite on par as compared to something like ECHL hockey.

The War Memorial was maybe 1/4 full. The boys wanted to change seats so we let them go over to the end zone area. No sooner did they get there and they were kicked out of their seats by the usher. It seems that tickets for the first four rows are more expensive than the rest so they don’t let you sit there unless you’ve paid to do so. Never mind that hardly any of the seats in the building were sold. It’s always been my experience that you can pretty much sit wherever you want at these kinds of events. But, if someone with a ticket shows up and you’re in their seat, you move. So, I thought that was a bit much, but maybe that’s just me.

books

just one look

This book had the most convoluted plot of any book I have ever read. At first, it seemed like it was going to be interesting, but in the end, it was not. I still don’t get the ending–it made no sense. I think I’m going to stay away from this author’s (Harlan Coben’s) other books.

weather

the weather

The weather has not been very cooperative this spring. Usually we have a couple of nice days strung together, but we’ve only had a couple of nice days total so far this month. So, I have not been outside much, unfortunately. I did manage to get the pond open on one of the nice days, but that’s about all I have done outside. I hope it gets nice soon because I have a lot to do.