Good morning, and why the fuck am heading to the office? Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
I guess it doesn’t really matter — garden wise, at least — that I’ll be spending most of the weekend at the office. Denver’s weather has, once again, taken a turn to the cold and moist just in time for the weekend.
But at least it’s only rain this time. Better than Monday, when I awoke to snow accumulating on the ground — we got over a half inch of moisture in the form of mushy slushy snow Sunday night going through Monday. It warmed to the mid-70s by mid-week, but that’s still very much on the cool side for late April.
The current bout of cold and dreary is forecast to last through mid-week. The current crush of work is forecast to last through Monday, when the Clusterfucked Briefing From Hell is due to be filed.
Today’s daffodil photos are proof that one can plant fall-planted spring bulbs in the spring: both were planted in early March, in a last, mad push to get everything out of cold storage and into the ground.
I’ve had the Week From Hell. My fellow office goddess is on a long-planned Mediterranean cruise until mid-May. A huge post-arbitration-hearing brief must be filed on Monday, so I get to do all the clean-up on the brief that a clusterfuck of lawyers (yes, indeedy: it's a pride of lions, a murder of crows, a herd of cows, and a clusterfuck of lawyers) cause when too many of them stir the broth fuck up my formatting and when some, as always, are none too diligent in adding their ingredients to the stew.
Then yesterday the third member of the support staff took off for the east coast because her mother is ill, so now it's just me trying to herd the clusterfuck.
Oh, and Younger Son is obsessing over the swine flu (thanks a lot fear-mongering "news" organizations). He's busy convincing himself that he's sick (no fever, no runny nose, no cough, no headache... yeah, I'll feel really guilty if he really does get sick, but for right now....)
Swine flu? I don't find that scary; this is what I find scary.
In the brief gap I had last weekend when the ground was dry enough for working, I managed to dig all the way down to the base of a bindweed root (this was about 2 feet below the original soil line) and get it out intact. Explains a lot about why bindweed is so difficult to get rid of, eh?
In short: Due to work and weather gardening is on hold. Will post as I'm able....
That's what's happening here; what's going in your gardens?