May Day

In honor of the semester from HELL finally ending (I submitted my final exam in cataloging yesterday), I am going to make an effort to blog every day in the month of May. Of course, I started this post yesterday (hence the title), so clearly that’s going well so far, eh?

I‘ve been was up at 6:30 this yesterday morning when we had a thunderstorm move into the area with some pretty spectacular lightning. We are in the midst of getting our veggie garden started and we’ve been putting our plants outside (they’re currently in pots) when the weather is nice enough to give them more sunlight. But The Boyfriend was putting our strawberry plants in the same spot on the porch, a spot that gets a ton of run off rain, and the strawberries have nearly drowned twice. The last time they were FLOATING in their pot.

Actually, though, they don’t seem to mind. There is the beginnings of at least one strawberry on one of the plants, so I think they’re going to be just fine.

I actually ended up planting them yesterday afternoon, along with our buttercrunch lettuce plants that we bought a while back. Turns out they’re a cool weather crop, so they’d have been perfectly happy living outside. I sorta feel bad for the little guys now. We also planted our blueberry shrub. I doubt we’ll have fruit off of it this year, but maybe we’ll be pleasantly surprised.

I haven’t been outside yet this morning. I’m hoping we weren’t visited by rabbits overnight. Although I left The Zola Cat outside, so perhaps she was walking the perimeter.

Last night, I discovered that while May 15 is the “last average frost date” out by the airport, here in the city it’s May 1st. Guess who will be planting more stuff today? I soaked Morning Glory and Moonflower seeds last night for planting in boxes to climb up trellises by our patio area. They’re going in today. We bought garbanzo beans on a whim last night. I’m planting some of those as well. I hear they can be difficult as far as yields go, but the plant itself is supposed to be pretty. And if it produces, we learn to make our own hommous. If anyone has a good recipe for us to try, please pass it along!

Other than finally being a full time participant in the gardening (The Boyfriend had started all of our seedlings and has been nurturing them lovingly for weeks), I’ve been doing genealogy stuff, such as attending the OGS conference. I’ll talk about that in another post. I think I’m going to re-create a genealogy blog, since in addition to my mom’s side of the family, I decided to at least to build on the research done by my aunt on my dad’s side. Annnnd, I’m working on The Boyfriend’s family as well.

The calendar hasn’t caught up yet, but for me, summer is here. And it’s going to be full!