The weekend was pretty non-eventful. I spent much of the time catching up on P-Patch work. I just have enough time for minimal gardening during the week. Amanda’s soon-to-be-former coworker Carol brought over six tomatoes and two pepper plants for us. She had intended to plant them at her own raised bed, but then she found out that she would be able to adopt a child (from Nepal in her case… she had been trying to adopt domestically/locally but was that wasn’t happening for a lot of reasons), so she did not have the time to garden this year. Her new daughter Shanti (sp?) is three years old and barely weighs more than Lonan Kai. Nepali women and very short and I guess she is on the short side for them. We showed them our P-Patch and Shanti enjoyed a bunch of fresh snow peas from our plot.
So, I planted all the extra plants. I harvested the rest of our radishes and spinach (mainly to make room for the new tomatoes). I went shopping for cheap tomato cages and stakes. I had intended to buy these cool cages this year, but then the spring was unseasonably cold, so I am putting off the investment until next season. More gardening, etc. etc. etc..
I also ventured down south to pick up a variety of things: a baby monitor, a booster seat, some toy rings, a new dress shirt, and a new fantasy book (Jhegaala by Steven Brust), and a book on baby sign language. And chocolates for Amanda. Ya for consumerism.
We also ate out on night in Columbia City at Geraldine’s Counter. Their dinners are merely OK; they are far better as a lunch place. I did not want to go to El Sombrero again to the chagrin of Amanda.