Anyway I tried to blog yesterday but it was a very busy day off for me. And when I finally did retire to my room to do some blogging, Teenager decided to intrude and insisted on sitting in my chair talking to me about hair, her boyfriend, and what ever else. After a while I was only half listening and wanting her to go to bed. I can take only so much chatter like that. Even when I was her age that stuff was not an interesting topic for me. So I gave up any thought on blogging last night and tried to watch some Youtube. Something I knew that would bore her and make her leave....Gardening! Hahahaha. She lasted much longer then I anticipated though and by the time she excused her self it was pretty late and time for some zzzzs myself.
So yeah....yesterday started out busy and ended not as I imagined. Went to breakfast in La Porte with a social group which lasted past noon. Then when I got home, I went to check my bank account to make sure I had enough $$ for my Dr.s appointment this morning. I had exactly $44 buckaroos in my account. Seriously, how sad is that???? But, this should be the last time my account is ever that low again. With out the x draining everything for his addictions, and without all the bills I had before (my last check went to catching up on the car payment and car insurance) then this should no longer be an issue. :) So yeah, a milestone for me indeed on my little journey to new freedom! I did not intend to use any more cash then necessary for my Dr.s appointment and to buy one thing, an Aloe plant which was on my wish list and I knew Walmart had just got some in fresh for $4. So next I went to Walmart.
I parked outside the garden center, big mistake! I walked past bags of soil, mulch and amendments. Out of curiosity I glanced at the trees I was passing....OMG Fruit trees for $9.98!!!! On closer inspection, I only saw two types. Peach and Red Apple. They did not have any variety name or real info on the tags. I'm picky about apples and when I get them again, I want semi dwarf trees. I doubted these were semi dwarf. Not for $ 9.98. But I know D said he wanted a peach tree. I quickly text him. We had not planned on getting trees YET. We had been talking about it maybe for the fall but for $9.98 how could we pass this up?
I picked up the peach. And made it inside to pick up the aloe plant also. More then I wanted to spend but I'm good on gas for the week, and I get paid Friday so I will survive. I've had a lot less for a very long time. Surviving is what I do. I do not know if it is a cling peach or what, I hope it's a cling peach as we want to can them here. If not....I guess they will be for fresh eating only. The tag did have one of those QR label things to scan with a smart phone but even that didn't have any more information just that it could get 15-25 feet tall and how to plant it....
So I maneuver the tree into my car and the aloe and I and I go and visit my friend Joe on the way home for some trip planning for next weekend. I spent about an hour there before taking my living prizes back home.
Earlier in the morning, I had gone through my garlic bulbs. Hoping some of them were still good enough to plant. I've grown the same garlic for 10 years just about and did not want to lose it and I had been given permission to go ahead and plant them wherever somewhere out of the way. I picked out 15 of the more likely to maybe make it and tossed the rest in the compost bin. They were not even worthy of eating at this point. I dug up a small rectangle of earth next to the compost bin to get it in the ground. It may be shady there but at this point, I'm trying to save the roots, not get a harvest.
The soil here is very easy to dig. Its very sandy and that will pose a challenge I know considering there is no outside water source besides rain here. Which is why I'm reluctant to really start a garden here yet. I added some potting soil to the little patch to help since I don't have any compost ready yet.
Speaking of compost....It smells drunk now. Seriously like beer. My landlord, getting into the spirit of composting now, poured one of his tanks of beer into it. He makes beer I guess sometimes and had an old tank he wanted to dispose of so it smells very beer like out there now hahahaha.
I didn't get the peach planted yet as it was cold, damp and chilly out and wanted to think about where to put the peach tree. D and I decided the front yard would be fine, kind of near the porch while he bar-b-qued some pork chops and potatoes.
We ate dinner inside and chatted a bit. Teenager was in trouble with her father, so it was a somewhat quiet dinner and I escaped upstairs to try and blog, which of course didn't happen.
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