Wow!

So like three weeks later I sober up, now that is a good buzz! Don't I wish. I've just been swamped with the end of school, end of swim team, beginning of swim lesson season, and the pool opening. The pool opening mainly. We opened last weekend, and I've had to be the police. Not fun, I hate confrontation, and being the pool police is just a world of confrontation. I have to make certain everyone lives in the neighborhood, has paid their dues, is over 16, and has a proper entry code. Fun times, really, a blast! Not to mention that people that haven't paid come in and I have to be the heavy. I've had some less than favorable responses. All this for free! Gosh, I love to volunteer, and get shit on all at once!

Ok enough about that bullshit. R graduates from K4 Thursday night. I'm sad. I know I should be happy, but I'm not. I'm not ready for school five days a week 180 days a year for the next 13 years. Call me crazy, but the last 5 years have been a cake walk. I'll also miss her first classmates. I'm such a sap, but these were her first classmates, and now not one is going to her elementary school. I'll miss Miss Kim, she's been absolutely the best teacher ever, why have a new teacher, right? I'm so happy that C is heading to this school in the fall because at least I know we'll have contact with this wonderful place for two more years.

Remember my garden? The one that The Suit wheelbarrowed 4 cubic yards of mushroom compost to from the driveway? The one where I planted 20 heirloom tomato plants that I ordered online? The one that we rented a tiller to prepare? The one that we bought timbers to frame? The one that has been FUCKING TORTURING ME for three weeks? Yes, that one.

Well it appears that something is array with the compost, and things are dying left and right. It's been about a week since the last murder, but for three weeks I was going out nightly surveying the beauty only to wake up in the morning with a huge healthy tomato plant on the ground completely limp and wilted. I hoped it was some odd dehydration thing, but they never came back. Dead, Dead, Dead! Lost 6 tomato plants, 6 daylilies, petunias, impatiens, etc. It's been fun.

I finally called the compost people, at the begging of my neighbors that were really getting sick of hearing me piss and moan every day, seems that my compost might not have been blended. To me that means nothing, but to my poor plants, that means straight shots of nitrogen. Excellent. They took a soil sample and mailed it off, so we'll see. Like I said it's been about a week, so I'm hopeful that I can close off this chapter in gardening.

One good thing, we got lots of broccoli, it's pretty neat, going out cutting off a huge chunk of broccoli, eating it. Fun. Assuming my tomatoes and cukes make it, that will be the best! The girls love it, R gets so excited finding the veggies, "Look Mama, a YELLOW!!!" That's yellow squash to you and I. It's neat to see them get excited about stuff like that.

So that's the update, fairly boring.