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May. 21st, 2006 05:13 pmBrought 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.)
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.)
