taking care of business
Sep. 14th, 2014 06:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljgeoffI have the next two days off, and a ton of things to do. This will be one of those boring "to do" posts.
-- I'm buying some sand this week for sandboxes for the kids. I've built a huge sandbox out back (8ftX16ft or about 2.5m/5m) and I'm digging out half of my front yard for another one. That sounds like a lot, but my front yard is tiny, and the play place in the front will be smaller than the one in back. I'll be buying about 2.5 cubic yards of Lake Michigan beach sand for about $200.
-- I'm going to put the garden to bed, or most of it. It's been cold and rainy for the last week, and the only thing loving this weather is the cabbage and broccoli (I have two plants that survived the kids). The tomatoes were done weeks ago from the blight, and the quinoa is looking very sad in the rain. And I have one bed to dig that I never got done last spring.
-- I also want to dig out space at the back of the house for next year's tomatoes. I'm going to dig a long, thin bed with space for some 10-15 plants. Because it'll be in back and keeping in mind that the kids dug up all of my broccoli and crushed my rhubarb back there this summer, I'll have to invest in some decent fencing. Hmm... if I make a fence with farmer's cloth, I can run straight sticks through the fence to act as supports for the tomatoes, and I won't have to buy any tomato cages.
-- I'm going to bubble wrap some of my windows for extra insulation this winter. The kids have completely wrecked the mini blinds in the living room; I'm going to take those down, install the bubble wrap and put up curtains. That'll cost about another $100 because I can't find four panels of the same pattern of used curtains anywhere. I'm hoping that I can get the bubble wrap from a department or furniture store.
-- I'm buying some sand this week for sandboxes for the kids. I've built a huge sandbox out back (8ftX16ft or about 2.5m/5m) and I'm digging out half of my front yard for another one. That sounds like a lot, but my front yard is tiny, and the play place in the front will be smaller than the one in back. I'll be buying about 2.5 cubic yards of Lake Michigan beach sand for about $200.
-- I'm going to put the garden to bed, or most of it. It's been cold and rainy for the last week, and the only thing loving this weather is the cabbage and broccoli (I have two plants that survived the kids). The tomatoes were done weeks ago from the blight, and the quinoa is looking very sad in the rain. And I have one bed to dig that I never got done last spring.
-- I also want to dig out space at the back of the house for next year's tomatoes. I'm going to dig a long, thin bed with space for some 10-15 plants. Because it'll be in back and keeping in mind that the kids dug up all of my broccoli and crushed my rhubarb back there this summer, I'll have to invest in some decent fencing. Hmm... if I make a fence with farmer's cloth, I can run straight sticks through the fence to act as supports for the tomatoes, and I won't have to buy any tomato cages.
-- I'm going to bubble wrap some of my windows for extra insulation this winter. The kids have completely wrecked the mini blinds in the living room; I'm going to take those down, install the bubble wrap and put up curtains. That'll cost about another $100 because I can't find four panels of the same pattern of used curtains anywhere. I'm hoping that I can get the bubble wrap from a department or furniture store.