Angela Law

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

easter weekend

Jake spent the weekend in Virginia with Amelia and her family. They rented a cabin for the holiday. So, we put to rest our Easter traditions of an Easter egg hunt and a basket of candy. It was a good run, but I guess it was time. My mom usually does Easter dinner, but I hosted it this year.

On Saturday, I went to a gardening seminar at Sandyvale. Ron McIntosh always does the best seminars. This one was “Best Garden Ever” and that also happens to be my yearly mantra. I’m a little behind on gardening. I planted kale and swiss chard the other week but it never sprouted and it looks like something dug up the seeds. So, I restarted them in the house, but they’re going to be getting planted outside awfully late. I have a bunch of other things to plant outside this week and the weather is supposed to be beautiful, so I should be able to get to everything.

A friend told me about this gardening planner and I’ve been using their dates for everything: https://app.seedtime.us/ It seems to be pretty accurate and I was glad that I didn’t have to figure out everything on paper this year.

movies

the menu

I wasn’t sure if I would like this movie, but I did. Sometimes you have to take a chance and watch something different. I thought it was a horror movie but it was more of a satire. I won’t try to explain it because I probably couldn’t anyway.

My rating: 3.5/5

volunteering

on a break

After volunteering for over 4.5 years and being on the board for 3 of them, I’ve decided to take a little break from the action. I’ll re-evaluate after Jake moves out in July and either go back to what I was doing or find a different opportunity. With the weather getting nicer, this is perfect timing–it will give me more time to garden and such. I’ll have to make a point of taking my own dogs on some long walks, as well, because I’ll be missing all the exercise that I was getting from walking the shelter dogs.

gardening & landscaping

garden time!

Yesterday was the first truly nice day, so I got outside after work for a little bit and started doing things. My main goal was to uncover the pond and clean up the leaves around it. That mission was accomplished. Hopefully, I can get the pump running this evening. The filter’s all hooked up, but it’s always an iffy proposition that things will work properly (that is, without any leaks). And I know I’m going to have to buy a new filter at some point–I just hope that point is not “now”.

I need to do some gardening, too. I direct seeded kale and swiss chard the other week, but we got a ton of rain not long after and so far, nothing has sprouted. If I don’t see something soon, I will try planting them indoors, but it’s getting kind of late for those. I have some other seeds that need to be planted, but there’s so much going on right now (I’m still getting my office back together after redoing the floors the other week and am also behind on housework due to that). Hopefully I can get to it in the next week. But I am excited about the prospect of some more nice weather. I’ve been cooped up in the house long enough!

tv

killing eve

This show started off as an interesting spy thriller, but kind of fizzled out as the seasons went on. Villanelle was such a great character in the first season or two, but they even made her boring by the end. I can’t even remember the point of the series anymore. It doesn’t help that I’m in the middle of another spy show, Counterpart. I’m not going to make the mistake of watching two similar shows simultaneously again. The last season or two kind of floundered, plus it’s been over for a year and I didn’t realize the final season was available because Hulu didn’t tell me the episodes were available despite having the series in my queue.

My rating: 3/5