garden: spring is coming on apace

[jinian]

It's sunny and about 50F out there, so I had to go outside. Calculus is fun (and required), but that's sunshine. Finished pruning all the roses. The formerly 12-foot monster one is still almost as tall as I am, but I think that's all the beating on it I'm going to do this year. It became obvious to me while I was hacking at it that the lavenders need to go back there. Must find or invent a technique for individual raised beds. (Actually, the crock-pot that the bottom fell out of is doing well for the Corsican mint, but that's not very repeatable. Or is it? Maybe a Goodwill run is in order. I also have a masonry bit for my drill, so no container is safe.)

The pile of trimmings is now very large. Wonder what the landlord would think of renting a wood chipper to eat it. He wouldn't have to pay for pickup then, because the compost would like the chips.

Squills everywhere, including in areas thought to be purged. Not such a bad thing. Also, many tulips where last year were only two! Unsuspected hyacinths in the mint pot! Location of crocuses still unknown, though. Am I mistaken about having had them?

Had to come indoors because knees are being troublesome. Knew I shouldn't have taken the stairs at school today, but feel such a prat taking the elevator when only going up two floors at a time.

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[baratron.livejournal.com]

feel such a prat taking the elevator when only going up two floors at a time

Heh, I know how that one feels. I managed to rationalise it about a week into my last school placement, when I was coming home exhausted and in pain through having to walk up stairs because the lift was broken, and contrasting this to how I felt if I could use the lift. For me, it came down to using the lift and being well enough to have A Life and real job, vs not using the lift and being too ill to. I think I'd take the life and occasional embarrassment / need to explain invisible disability over no life any day!

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, not taking the stairs because they damage one is definitely right action when one is being at all sensible. :) Solved the feeling-silly part today by bringing my cane. Wish all problems were so amenable to being solved by appropriate use of props.