Sick, Stores, Music, and Plants
I guess it's been a little while since I've written about stuff going on, so I'll try to catch up.
Joe was sick for about a week (fever, lots of congestion), so not much happened that week. We've been spending time getting to know people in our ComGroup better (small groups a part of Community Church) and got away a Friday night through Saturday afternoon to have some bonding time. That was good.
In a smaller town like College Station, store openings are big. We now have a Kohl's (I had never been to one before) and a Michael's. I was severely disappointed by the latter. We had a Michael's near our house when I was in high school that turned into a MJDesigns. I could spend hours there. It has now become an awesome JoAnn's, but one MUCH bigger (2 stories!) than any other craft store I've seen. I guess Garden Ridge is bigger, but it doesn't focus on the type of stuff I like. Anyway, I had gotten Michael's confused with this MJDesigns / JoAnn's in Dallas and was let down. Their scrapbooking and cake decorating sections are both not as good as the Hobby Lobby in town. Yes, my name is Kathryn, and I do craft-type projects. (Right now the primary ones are: (1) comforter for our bed with lots of embroidery, (2) Christmas gift for Joe's mom, (3) redecorating the living room with no money.)
Joe is almost done with a recording we've been working on of Ross King's "In Need" (Joe made an a cappella arrangement). He's still working a little on the mixing, but it's nice to have all the recording done. When Joe's working on the song, usually I'm doing projects or gardening.
I bought some plants this weekend to plant in our fall garden. I have: broccoli, celery, mixed greens, buttercrisp lettuce, and onions. I also bought some creeping rosemary and basil. I think the basil will stay inside - last time the basil I got died from bug attacks (the technical term). I think I'll try to get spinach seeds somewhere, too. This Spring was my first experiment with gardening, and these are all very different types of plants than I had before. Friday night and Saturday I worked on tilling the garden (and have a nice blister to prove it), but discovered that a lot of ants recently moved in. I can't find any mounds, but there are so many that they must be living underground. I tried pouring boiling water on the places I saw them going underground, but it hasn't seemed to work. Any advice for someone who doesn't want to poison her family and friends with ant killer in the garden? I'm waiting to plant until I get that figured out.
The weather's getting nice in the evenings, which is exciting. I think we are on week 10 of the 12 week challenge, so that's wrapping up. We're trying to figure out how to keep in shape once it's over (we're not signing up for the next one). Anyone who lives in town and wants to join us in exercising, let us know!
Joe was sick for about a week (fever, lots of congestion), so not much happened that week. We've been spending time getting to know people in our ComGroup better (small groups a part of Community Church) and got away a Friday night through Saturday afternoon to have some bonding time. That was good.
In a smaller town like College Station, store openings are big. We now have a Kohl's (I had never been to one before) and a Michael's. I was severely disappointed by the latter. We had a Michael's near our house when I was in high school that turned into a MJDesigns. I could spend hours there. It has now become an awesome JoAnn's, but one MUCH bigger (2 stories!) than any other craft store I've seen. I guess Garden Ridge is bigger, but it doesn't focus on the type of stuff I like. Anyway, I had gotten Michael's confused with this MJDesigns / JoAnn's in Dallas and was let down. Their scrapbooking and cake decorating sections are both not as good as the Hobby Lobby in town. Yes, my name is Kathryn, and I do craft-type projects. (Right now the primary ones are: (1) comforter for our bed with lots of embroidery, (2) Christmas gift for Joe's mom, (3) redecorating the living room with no money.)
Joe is almost done with a recording we've been working on of Ross King's "In Need" (Joe made an a cappella arrangement). He's still working a little on the mixing, but it's nice to have all the recording done. When Joe's working on the song, usually I'm doing projects or gardening.
I bought some plants this weekend to plant in our fall garden. I have: broccoli, celery, mixed greens, buttercrisp lettuce, and onions. I also bought some creeping rosemary and basil. I think the basil will stay inside - last time the basil I got died from bug attacks (the technical term). I think I'll try to get spinach seeds somewhere, too. This Spring was my first experiment with gardening, and these are all very different types of plants than I had before. Friday night and Saturday I worked on tilling the garden (and have a nice blister to prove it), but discovered that a lot of ants recently moved in. I can't find any mounds, but there are so many that they must be living underground. I tried pouring boiling water on the places I saw them going underground, but it hasn't seemed to work. Any advice for someone who doesn't want to poison her family and friends with ant killer in the garden? I'm waiting to plant until I get that figured out.
The weather's getting nice in the evenings, which is exciting. I think we are on week 10 of the 12 week challenge, so that's wrapping up. We're trying to figure out how to keep in shape once it's over (we're not signing up for the next one). Anyone who lives in town and wants to join us in exercising, let us know!
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posted by kathryn at 7:11 AM
2 Comments:
You could try table salt to get rid of the ants, but I expect that will make planting things harder. Maybe try to rinse the salt out once the ants are gone.
Michael moves our chicken tractor to the ant mounds in our yard and the chickens eat the ants. You could borrow our chickens, but that would probably break some ordinances in College Station. They don't seem to mind riding in the car, though... April
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