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Well I did it, I bought myself a Chrissy present and a mud cake ๐
My pressie to myself is a robo vacuum thingy since this house is about 90% carpet. Time will tell if it's either an invaluable addition, or a cheap piece of shit that'll shit itself and end up in landfill within 3 months (I went budget end, but slightly up from the cheapest)
(It won't arrive until the 27th though because holidays)
I loooove my robot vac. His name is Barnaby, as he makes binary decisions and always turns to the right. I don't yet have googly eyes on him, but that is coming someday. He doesn't deal well with getting stuck in corners, so has to be rescued when this happens. I don't count this a fault or a problem.
I might look around and see what places are open tomorrow. It will give us something to do because Christmas had generally been a slow and sometimes boring day for me in the past
Take the boys down to the park early in the morning and spend the rest of the day with your young family playing games. Create nice memories.
We did 4 Christmas movies today and I couldn't be happier.
Guess which oned and you'll receive my film gratitude.
Hint. 2 from the 80s, 1 from 90s, 1 from 2000's
Ant bait stations built, time for incessant carolling
Made a fillet o fish sandwich for dinner tonight.
Very yummy indeed.
Might put a movie on later tonight depending on my mood.
Watched Challengers last night. Wasnโt bad but Iโm definitely not a fan of all of the time skipping in it. Didnโt enjoy it as much as I thought I would.
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I'm just taking it slow. Make pizzas for dinner, then all the scones and cream.
Iron my pants for tomorrow. Make sure all the presents are there and wrapped and tagged properly. Tomorrow morning make the fairy bread, water the garden then get ready and off to the cousins. ๐
Hey, I had pizza for dinner, too! I didn't make it though, I just bought one of those Dr. Restaurant things from IGA. Hawaiian ๐
Crap gardening spot ramble
5 of the 6 marigold seedlings are still alive (the 5th might be dead due to being stepped on by a workman). Maybe 1 of the sunflowers came up. Some of the alyssum might be coming up but unsure. One of the nasturtiums came up.
It doesnโt seem they do well direct sown, probably because the spot is a sandy dust bowl and I donโt go out there often enough to keep the seeds moist. Theyโre fairly drought tolerant but probably need to be a bit more established first.
Suspected that so Iโve already been raising more in paper cups and a foil tray and today planted out 3 nasturtium seedlings I grew inside. The mix of nasturtium, alyssum and sunflowers I sowed in the foil pan show signs of things coming up. I also got some kind of poppies.
I wish Iโd been able to weed and dig over the dirt properly but I donโt think I can plus thereโs a weird hard compacted layer of sand that would be difficult to break through. And that stupid tree is still sucking everything up and obstructing with its roots. Even if the plants were safe there (theyโre kind of not - hence cheap disposable annual seeds) and I was (Iโm not - hence limited trips out there) it would take a bit of work and time to make it suitable for growing food.
I wish Iโd done this with natives and maybe later I will.
But I saw another native bee buzzing around my zucchinis so I might be getting somewhere.
I've had a bad success rate with sunflowers, and I can usually grow anything.
