Who ya gonna call?

[ellyssian]

Brought out the SP Systems SP0 and damned if I didn't feel like Ghostbusters...

Justin and I took turns emptying a nearly full 4 gallons of water - wet some plants down, washed pollen off the cars, cleaned the first floor windows... well, sort of. It's not really intended as a pressure washer, I just wanted to flush it out with some water before actually using it for the first time.

And the first thing to crawl in there was a bunch of nematodes, which were then aimed at some known (and suspected) Japanese beetle and cutworm larvae hiding places. We were hoping it would rain again - it started raining right before we started, and, ideally, some rain afterward would help them little boogers swim into the soil and eat them some grubs (literally.)

Since the rain never showed up (the weather is really terrible on follow-through these days...) Justin and I tossed a baseball around for a while. Rachel got a bit of scooter time in a bit later in the afternoon.

I grilled some cheddar-filled bratwurst while Justin whipped up some nutted pilaf, and we also pulled together a salad. Delicious. More than made up for the butchering of the challah french toast I did in the morning... (last time I *follow* a recipe - it said "soak for 5 minutes", and was supposed to work for a whole loaf; after 4 minutes the first two slices sucked up most of the stuff. The second set of three had a mere hint of mixture, while the first were covered in fried eggs. Only half the loaf made it in the dip at all.)

Comments

[patrixa.livejournal.com]

I guess you need one of them things, I guess. But isn't it a lot of work?

Thanks for the heads up re gardeners.com I did order a garden scooter and am looking forward to getting my backyard in order once I get it. Being able to sit and scoot between plants will maje the work so much easier.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

It's heavy when it's full, but with all the anti-rodent spray - and later sprays of various organic pest control (two biggest pests: white tailed deer and Japanese beetles) - it's definitely needed. For the amount of area to be covered, the backpack is a necessity - be much more work to walk around with a handheld sprayer.

[nhmetalchick.livejournal.com]

NO MORE RAIN, I REPEAT, NO MORE RAIN. Better yet, take the rain we had today. I found out the hardway what it feels like to have rain pelting off your face while riding a motorcycle. May as well just take a staple gun, stand 3 feet away, aim at your face and shoot. I'm also sitting here with 8 boxes of baking soda poured out onto my carpet hoping it takes away some of the musty/moldy smell from my carpet that my homeowners wont replace since it was an "act of god", and anxiously awaiting the pumping of my septic tank, that now has a junk leech field, about 11k to replace, that again is not covered.. NO MORE RAIN!!!!!!

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I hate to tell you, but you're borderline drought warning already...

[nhmetalchick.livejournal.com]

Who are you kidding, you don't hate to tell me. You're probably laughing your butt off.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Why would I be laughing?