weekend progress

saturday i went to the market myself and did ALL THE SHOPPING by myself. this isn't a big deal if one normally takes a car to the store to do the grocery shopping, but we take transit to the union square farmer's market to do grocery shopping. i had the giant whole foods bag my boss gave me slung over my shoulder with the whole foods goodies in it (paper towels, toilet paper, baking soda, toothpaste, broccoli, plus a couple other things), my backpack with a dozen and a half eggs in it plus my water bottle, and two green grocery bags full of food. it was heavy! but i did it! *proud*

in the afternoon, i broke the ground in a section of the yard along the border between us and our one neighbor. i plan to plant corn and sunflowers (and maybe watermelons) in that space, plus the "garden in a roll" butterfly garden that our now-ex-roommate ruben gave us. the bed is about 2 or so feet wide and the yard is about 20 or 30 feet long. i broke about half of that length with the hand cultivator to about 4 inches deep, pulling all the rocks out (now i've got half a bucket of rocks if you need some...) it was a lot of work, and it felt good :) i also nailed together the frame for the bean trellis. i was tired after that and figured i'd put the strings up later.

sunday i made stick trellises for the peas that are up, and i re-planted more peas that still hadn't showed (others i'd planted at the same time had come up already). then we did laundry, hung it outside, went to the regular grocery store for bulgar, canned tomatoes and canned corn (heavy things i didn't want to carry home by myself on saturday, haha), came home, and it started to rain. argh. so i pulled all the laundry in and hung it up inside.

then ruben came over and packed up the rest of his stuff and we took him and his stuff over to his phat pad in the west village (it's so beautiful! classic new york, you know?) and he took us out to dinner at lime thai (limethai.com), and it was very nice :)

oh, and saturday i took our recyclables out to the can, and the upstairs neighbors had put a 3 liter empty gingerale bottle in the can, so i snagged it and pulled the label off and cleaned it out and filled it with water, so i stored 3L of water this weekend. oh, and ruben left us the food that he had at the house, so we now have roughly 7 cups of white jasmine rice that we put into metal containers this morning for storage. oh, and on sunday when we were on our way to laundry, we passed a dumpster someone had hired for their remodeling/cleanup, and in it were (are, really, cos we didn't go back to get them yet) various window-type screens, irises that were dug up, a sawhorse, and a bunch of other stuff, plus a ton of dirt and actual trash. i'm very interested in the screens for dehydration purposes, and also the sawhorse for holding up the screens. plus the irises cos they're really pretty flowers and i hate to see them just dug up and thrown away :(

so yeah. um. busy productive weekend :)