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Halloween and Bee Lawn
Nov. 7th, 2022 11:27 amI am feeling seriously overwhelmed and not getting much done, because of my stupid hide-from-everything-and-do-nothing-useful reaction to stress.
Halloween was good! Phil thinks we got at least 50 kids. The kids and I were out trick-or-treating for a couple of hours, and they are still eating all the candy they got. As I mentioned before, Cassius was The Hollow Knight and Theia was Artemis. The weather was so nice that they didn’t even need jackets. That’s not a good thing overall, but it was pleasant for Halloween. While walking, we ran into friends of Theia’s who live just a couple of blocks away and go to the same across-town magnet school. Theia was really excited to see Hezekiah especially, so that was great.
There was an incident on Theia’s school bus of one kid looking up “sex” on their phone and showing other kids the resulting video. That’s not great. At least it’s a fairly straightforward “those are actors, real sex in a relationship is different (better!) than that, do you have any questions or feelings?” parent talk. She seems unfazed.
Phil’s promotion finally went through officially, along with a hefty raise to get his salary somewhat closer to competitive! There was so much bullshit he had to jump through around getting this, from applying for a job that he’d been told was “his” to having to “explain” to HR why he wasn’t getting paid what he should be for his current job. Ugh.
My big accomplishment this week was seeding our backyard with bee lawn! Fescue, White Dutch Clover, Self-Heal, Blue-eyed Grass, Yaak yarrow, and Creeping Thyme. This should help support pollinators and also be more pretty and low maintenance than our current grass. The advantage of seeding in fall is that I don’t have to rake the seed in, or water it, or fertilize it. The disadvantage of seeding in fall is that our huge silver maple tree was dropping ALL of its leaves. So it was rake a patch, start aerating the patch, re-rake the patch, finish aerating the patch, re-re-rake the patch, seed the patch, and watch the patch disappear under a layer of leaves. Rinse and repeat. Pondering seeding the side of our house, too, but I’m not sure anything will really grow there what with the dog’s crazy sprints. I also scored some Late Figwort from the Hosmer free seed library (organized by the mom of yet another of Theia’s chance-met friends!) and planted it near the fence, so we’ll see how it grows. It’s supposed to do well in shade and grow up to 5 feet???
Today I will vote early and then maybe treat myself to a croissant.
Halloween was good! Phil thinks we got at least 50 kids. The kids and I were out trick-or-treating for a couple of hours, and they are still eating all the candy they got. As I mentioned before, Cassius was The Hollow Knight and Theia was Artemis. The weather was so nice that they didn’t even need jackets. That’s not a good thing overall, but it was pleasant for Halloween. While walking, we ran into friends of Theia’s who live just a couple of blocks away and go to the same across-town magnet school. Theia was really excited to see Hezekiah especially, so that was great.
There was an incident on Theia’s school bus of one kid looking up “sex” on their phone and showing other kids the resulting video. That’s not great. At least it’s a fairly straightforward “those are actors, real sex in a relationship is different (better!) than that, do you have any questions or feelings?” parent talk. She seems unfazed.
Phil’s promotion finally went through officially, along with a hefty raise to get his salary somewhat closer to competitive! There was so much bullshit he had to jump through around getting this, from applying for a job that he’d been told was “his” to having to “explain” to HR why he wasn’t getting paid what he should be for his current job. Ugh.
My big accomplishment this week was seeding our backyard with bee lawn! Fescue, White Dutch Clover, Self-Heal, Blue-eyed Grass, Yaak yarrow, and Creeping Thyme. This should help support pollinators and also be more pretty and low maintenance than our current grass. The advantage of seeding in fall is that I don’t have to rake the seed in, or water it, or fertilize it. The disadvantage of seeding in fall is that our huge silver maple tree was dropping ALL of its leaves. So it was rake a patch, start aerating the patch, re-rake the patch, finish aerating the patch, re-re-rake the patch, seed the patch, and watch the patch disappear under a layer of leaves. Rinse and repeat. Pondering seeding the side of our house, too, but I’m not sure anything will really grow there what with the dog’s crazy sprints. I also scored some Late Figwort from the Hosmer free seed library (organized by the mom of yet another of Theia’s chance-met friends!) and planted it near the fence, so we’ll see how it grows. It’s supposed to do well in shade and grow up to 5 feet???
Today I will vote early and then maybe treat myself to a croissant.