They come out with the warmer weather...

[felis_lupus]

Got the first potheads of the season into the shop on Thursday... Suspected, anyway. Couple guys, looking for something to get rid of spider mites. Took a bit for my brain to click into gear and realize that 'hangon, it's April... spider mites aren't out yet...', and realize that he wasn't talking gallons of the stuff (as I was explaining how to mix the concentrate), just a "small spray bottle full". I suspect they had some special plants in a closet somewhere...

I've become more jaded, I suppose, from when I left college and started work there 6 years ago (good lord, 6 years...). The other notable pot people were the guys a few years ago who bought several hundred dollars worth of soil in the middle of winter, because they were growing "tomatoes" in their basement. Naive little me believed them, and thought "how cool!", and after they left, was informed by co-worker that no, it probably wasn't tomatoes they were growing... heh.

In home garden news, I couldn't wait any longer, and planted my peas yesterday. It said on the package, "plant as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring". The benefit of a raised garden is that it warms much earlier than the ground. My garden is warm all the way through, and FULL of worms. :) Dug out the peony and lavender pots that I'd buried last fall, transplanted the lemon thyme to the other side of the french, and generally cleaned up the garden box. Chives and garlic chives are growing nicely, thymes are both alive, strawberries are happy, both daylilies are coming up, and the lemon balm is awake, and starting to take over... I suspect I'll need to split that soon... Also need to plan where things are going. I've dug up some bulbs a few years in a row, now, hopefully didn't hurt them, and have popped them back in the soil...

I've decided I'm going ahead with the garden this year. I'll figure something out if we find a place, but I'm not going to be without. Q found a lead on a 3 BR farmhouse in Standish on 1.6 acres that was definitely in our price range, and seemed to be really nice, but once we finally tracked it down yesterday, turns out it was already sold... dangit. Probably wouldn't have done nice things to kurlon's commute anyway...

In other garden news, watch this video: http://www.in-sitevideo.com/wff/garlicmustard.html. 11 minutes long. Very informative and important if you care at all about our native forests. I don't recall seeing garlic mustard anywhere around, but that doesn't mean it's not here. I've spent much less time bopping around in the woods than I'd like to have been the last several years (woods battles at GNEW don't really count, as I'm not really paying attention to the trees themselves, just trying to not run into them. Though if something *really* interesting comes across the path, no guarantees I won't stop, other people trying to kill me or not!). Dang real life getting in the way of my fun again.

A box project Max and I are working on is coming along; I've got most of my scenes sketched for the drawers, and painting will begin today, I think. Quite happy with things.

Comments

[shadohrt.livejournal.com]

Jamie and I have also been looking at property even though we lack a means to finance it.....

And everything that meets our requirements is sold quickly. :-(

have you guys been pre-approved for financing?

[felis-lupus.livejournal.com]

eyup... that was no problem... we went UCU, as that's where both of us have our accounts. Very easy. We're being picky, and have some requirements that may be unreasonable for the price range and areas we are looking at, but there's hope that something will just fall into our laps.

[shadohrt.livejournal.com]

pre-approval is key in this market. It will let you make a pending offer (pending that the property passes a home inspection and that the bank approves its purchase for the price).