Today was filled with two trips to Home Depot (this time at my behest), lawn work, digging and planting. The lawn mower is acting up, fortunately Hans does mechanical work on the side and was already coming by tomorrow to sharpen the blades. We did the lovely spray all the weeds and the grass in the beds with harmful chemicals dance. Trimmed along the fenceline whilst cursing the crappy neighbors the entire time.
Home Depot had my Endless Summer "Blushing Bride" hydrangea in a 7 gallon pot -- $49.99 well spent. It was super crowded in the lawn and garden department at 1pm so I gave up on fighting the crowds too much, and just came out with some planter boxes, a fern for the second bookcase in the family room, and that was about it. We went back in the evening for some soil enrichment for the hydrangea hole, some tomato cages and a chance to actually look through the plants. I didn't think they'd have the digitalis that I was looking at in the White Flower Farm catalog, but as I was giving up the fight, a woman passed me with her cart brimming with two prime specimens of the lovely Digitalis, aka Foxglove...score! I ran back and picked up two 2 gallon pots of full blooming plants, got another tomato, a generic habanero plant that looked relatively decent, and a pot of cucumbers, which I figure couldn't hurt since I haven't started seeds yet. Since we were running out of daylight, we only got the hydrangea planted, but I think I can handle the two digitalis plants tomorrow on my own.
Tomorrow, there's more cleaning, more random projects around the house, and general mental preparation for the family's arrival. I should also make some banana nut bread for Hans, and maybe some banana pudding for us (as there's a lot of bananas sitting around getting spotty).
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