Green Goodness
04/04/2013 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaThe garden is filled with the intoxicating scent of pine needles and tree bark. A most unexpected surprise indeed
Returned from this morning's goblin taxation class to find the verge overflowing with an enormous pile of mulch. Freshly chomped up street tree prunings literally delivered to the door. Had signed up way back in November for the 'Free mulch" service and kept renewing the request every four weeks as required. Had pretty much given up hope. There usually is no such thing as a free lunch but the logic behind the business is that tree loppers and lawn mowing contractors often have to pay to get rid of their waste so that if they can have a network of gardeners offering a drop off point then everyone gets to benefit.
So it was a most delightful delivery indeed. Pity the news is not so good on the roof front. These buggers have been playing the waiting game. Rang several times in the last week or so to find out when they are coming back to do the job that should have been finished back in early February. They have finally replied. But it just so happens that the date they have chosen is the Friday kept reserved for the annual garden festival. Thursdays are out due to the goblin taxation course and weekends are pure pandemonium at any sort of event as that's when all the crowds are there
Here's hoping the buggers finish the job and don't come up with yet more excuses. It would be awful to end up with a roof still leaking and missing out on the gardening show
On the camp nano front, still not yet unleashed the Zombie Deck of Doom. Went to the writers group instead of lurking around the Lair carting barrows of mulch or tossing several thousand words on the Camp nano fire
It looks like the icky sticky sizzling weather is back to bother us. Having the month of March dead buried and cremated is no longer a guarantee of cooler weather
Returned from this morning's goblin taxation class to find the verge overflowing with an enormous pile of mulch. Freshly chomped up street tree prunings literally delivered to the door. Had signed up way back in November for the 'Free mulch" service and kept renewing the request every four weeks as required. Had pretty much given up hope. There usually is no such thing as a free lunch but the logic behind the business is that tree loppers and lawn mowing contractors often have to pay to get rid of their waste so that if they can have a network of gardeners offering a drop off point then everyone gets to benefit.
So it was a most delightful delivery indeed. Pity the news is not so good on the roof front. These buggers have been playing the waiting game. Rang several times in the last week or so to find out when they are coming back to do the job that should have been finished back in early February. They have finally replied. But it just so happens that the date they have chosen is the Friday kept reserved for the annual garden festival. Thursdays are out due to the goblin taxation course and weekends are pure pandemonium at any sort of event as that's when all the crowds are there
Here's hoping the buggers finish the job and don't come up with yet more excuses. It would be awful to end up with a roof still leaking and missing out on the gardening show
On the camp nano front, still not yet unleashed the Zombie Deck of Doom. Went to the writers group instead of lurking around the Lair carting barrows of mulch or tossing several thousand words on the Camp nano fire
It looks like the icky sticky sizzling weather is back to bother us. Having the month of March dead buried and cremated is no longer a guarantee of cooler weather
