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Jun. 3rd, 2020 08:53 amAfternoon PT really messes up my day. I wind up doing the shopping late, and even though the stores do stock all day, they still do most of the shelf stocking overnight. And there were a lot more people in the store than there were last week. Don't know if that's because I was there at 4pm rather than 11am, or because the Stay Home order is being relaxed. Probably both. Still holes in the distribution system -- even the suburban grocery I go to has lots of empty shelves. They had big bags of Five Roses flour that they didn't have in February, but Gold Medal is hard to find. Pasta/rice/bagged beans still sparse. The creamy PB is selling and not being restocked. The jams/jelly section is getting pretty picked over. Baking mixes (cakes, breads) are sparse. Frozen chicken supplies are spotty. The bread shelves are pretty well stocked, but only in a few varieties. I wound up buying ground beef at the local grocer, as their selection was better.
J is off at the transfer station (dump) today. They opened today for the first time since March, and as he didn't go the weekend before the lockdown, we have about 3 months worth of garbage piled up. And even at less than one bag a week it adds up. (We don't have municipal trash pickup out here in the boonies, enough people don't want it. Which seems really stupid to me, but whatcha gonna do? People'd rather pay $40+/month to one of five different garbage contractors and bitch about five different garbage trucks going down their street than have the township negotiate a contract with one contractor for about $15/month per household, to include recycling which most of the contractors don't. I refuse to pay $40 every month for my three bags of garbage. And we'd still have to go to the transfer station for the recycling anyway.)
The place where the rill was is now flat and tamped down, waiting for the first course of pavers. Then we start building the new rill in concrete block.
The crabapple tree in the front yard looked like it was getting ready to have a really nice entirely-covered-with-blossoms season, but then it rained and got windy, and the petals all blew off. :( The irises I moved in the fall are starting to bloom. The peonies are not showing buds yet, although they're growing. This year's recipient of the 'I don't remember planting this' stake is the lupine in the East garden. It's in the middle of the wildflower/random flower patch that I spread seeds for three or four years ago, but I don't remember the mix saying anything about having perennials in it, just freely reseeding annuals.
J is off at the transfer station (dump) today. They opened today for the first time since March, and as he didn't go the weekend before the lockdown, we have about 3 months worth of garbage piled up. And even at less than one bag a week it adds up. (We don't have municipal trash pickup out here in the boonies, enough people don't want it. Which seems really stupid to me, but whatcha gonna do? People'd rather pay $40+/month to one of five different garbage contractors and bitch about five different garbage trucks going down their street than have the township negotiate a contract with one contractor for about $15/month per household, to include recycling which most of the contractors don't. I refuse to pay $40 every month for my three bags of garbage. And we'd still have to go to the transfer station for the recycling anyway.)
The place where the rill was is now flat and tamped down, waiting for the first course of pavers. Then we start building the new rill in concrete block.
The crabapple tree in the front yard looked like it was getting ready to have a really nice entirely-covered-with-blossoms season, but then it rained and got windy, and the petals all blew off. :( The irises I moved in the fall are starting to bloom. The peonies are not showing buds yet, although they're growing. This year's recipient of the 'I don't remember planting this' stake is the lupine in the East garden. It's in the middle of the wildflower/random flower patch that I spread seeds for three or four years ago, but I don't remember the mix saying anything about having perennials in it, just freely reseeding annuals.
