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Garden lows and garden highs

June 21st, 2007 at 03:52 am

I have been so utterly depressed over the state of my garden this year. A while back, I mentioned that the dirt that was dug out for my brother's new house was thrown on top of my garden, and then in an effort to smooth it with the tractor bucket, it was subsequently compacted by the weight of the tractor, so I didn't have a great start. Then I spent (er, wasted) way too much time laying the newspapers down and putting maybe an inch of dirt on top (as everything I read told me to do) to combat the weeds. As of yesterday, I had teeny little plants which were wilting and lots of grass growing on top of my freaking newspaper. I really was so depressed, until...
a GLORIOUS thunderstorm yesterday. It was wonderful. And then today, it seemed as though my tomatoes were straighter, my peppers were taller, and lo and behold, when I weeded the garden, there were a lot more beets and chard than I had thought under all those weeds. I'm feeling a lot better about the state of my garden today. We'll see what tomorrow brings...

On the real estate front, we have gotten by the home inspection for the house I sold last week - only one problem noted by the buyers and my seller has already taken care of it. I LOVE having a good seller to work with, one who works with the buyers instead of against them. My other deal has progressed so smoothly that the bank is actually ready to close - although we have to get all the legal work done still. We're not scheduled to close for another month. My third deal should be scheduled to close with a week Smile Smile

DH gets paid Friday and with that check, we are either going to pay off that darn lingering Am Ex ($1k left at 0% for another month or so) or the newly charged up Discover ($1500 - DH's summer class tuition). That should put us in really good shape for the summer, where we'll be back to one income. DH has been *told* that he has a job for next year at the school where he is subbing, but until we get the actual *offer*...we're not counting on anything. We'll know Friday!!

1 Responses to “Garden lows and garden highs”

  1. JanH Says:
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    Sending good thoughts that your DH gets an offer and contract for next year! Keep us posted!

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