Emerald City Gardens

What a great spring day this was for January 13th...we played in the sun for hours mid-day, drunk on Vitamin D and - planting bulbs! Yes, it happened! 100 mixed daffs, 35 'Kung Fu' tulips (dark red with ivory edges), 35 'Negrita' tulips (a rich mid-purple) and...some mid-pink tulip I can't remember the name of. 35 of those, too.

Got some more clean-up performed in the great outdoors then I made the mistake of thinking, "Hmmm, I bet that mat of Luzula sylvatica encroaching on the sidewalk would be easy enough to get rid of..." Well, we did it - with combined heavy labor from both of us - but that was all she wrote; the day ended there and it was home for naps. Hey, we're old! :b Good intentions were to go back tonight and paint some more, but...y'know.

In fits and starts, though, stamina is returning. It better.

Yesterday we donated a $50 gift certificate to the Hazel Heights P-Patch auction. This will be a new p-patch very near the nursery; if like us you're going, "Hazel Heights?..." we had it explained to us that a woman named Hazel donated the land for this project, thus the name. I hope they got big bucks for our generous contribution! Well, at least a buck or two. Hopefully we can coordinate a fundraiser for them at the nursery sometime this summer.

Tomorrow being Monday I'll stay home and do some more ordering. We're less than seven weeks from opening and there's so much still to procure. Still having massive email headaches (sending) with that spamhaus.org nonsense and it's time to fight that more aggressively...I haven't been able to confirm new subscription requests for some time and we've *ulp* had a few résumés sent to us that I haven't acknowledged, either! It's been flattering, all these people wanting to work for us before we're even in business, but I hope it's not a sign of an economic downturn and work getting harder to come by. We can't pay a living wage and no bennies so I'm sure it's just that everybody wants to hang out with us and be our friends. Uh-huh. ;)