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May. 12th, 2019 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicornduke today was gross and miserable.
raining from the moment I got up. I didn't sleep super well, I can't tell if it's the shitty old couch or what. But that or my missed meds on thursday had a headache brewing although I didn't notice until 10 or so.
With the rain, the parents and I were all feeling lazy so we got up and went to early breakfast and chatted over food. It was nice. It's a tiny diner type place that is just super local. Has maybe ten or twelve tables and there's two people total working there.
Then we got back and I convinved myself eventually I needed to get something done so I went and made my new grow light stand since the old one bent. It's very nice although I need to tighten up one set of screws that got pushed around a bunch while I was figuring out how to transport it. As it turns out, you can't fit something that is two feet by two and a half by four feet under the bed cover of my truck. I ended up sticking it up with the cover partially open in the very back.
I then took meds for the headache and like a smart person, went and got my pea trellis put up in the rain. I made a ton of mud but it's up. The pole peas are between four and six inches tall and I wasn't sure if I'd be back before memorial day weekend so they'd grow another four or six inches and be climbing by then.
I was planning to get some kind of platform set up in my truck bed (that was easy to take up and remove) so that when two weeks from now comes, I can transport all my plants down with one layer on the truck bed and one on the platform. I have many. I've got seven trays in my bedroom and 200ish plants awaiting me at the A Farm. So. Many.
But I just ran out of time and energy. I couldn't find the right sized boards or plywood and while my headache was mostly gone, I was tired. So I'm driving down next weekend to help my parents with strawberry planting and to get the supplies for the bed. Basically, I need two 57 inch 2x4s to lay in two little divots in the truck bed sides and a 57 inch 1x4 to lay on the tire wells for my side to side support and then two or three boards to lay front to back and then the plywood on top.
It took me forever to get the motivation to pack up and get on the road and it drizzled the whole way. This is a problem because my truck's windshield wiper options are: 1 wipe (basically manual wiping), wiping so it finishes a sweep and comes right back up with no time pause, and super fast speed. That's it! Since there's no slow speed and regular speed drives me nuts and makes squeaky noises, I drove for 3.5 hours manually hitting the windshield wipers every 5 to 20 seconds. The. Whole. Drive.
I'm in NY, tired and going to bed soon because I have work in the morning.
raining from the moment I got up. I didn't sleep super well, I can't tell if it's the shitty old couch or what. But that or my missed meds on thursday had a headache brewing although I didn't notice until 10 or so.
With the rain, the parents and I were all feeling lazy so we got up and went to early breakfast and chatted over food. It was nice. It's a tiny diner type place that is just super local. Has maybe ten or twelve tables and there's two people total working there.
Then we got back and I convinved myself eventually I needed to get something done so I went and made my new grow light stand since the old one bent. It's very nice although I need to tighten up one set of screws that got pushed around a bunch while I was figuring out how to transport it. As it turns out, you can't fit something that is two feet by two and a half by four feet under the bed cover of my truck. I ended up sticking it up with the cover partially open in the very back.
I then took meds for the headache and like a smart person, went and got my pea trellis put up in the rain. I made a ton of mud but it's up. The pole peas are between four and six inches tall and I wasn't sure if I'd be back before memorial day weekend so they'd grow another four or six inches and be climbing by then.
I was planning to get some kind of platform set up in my truck bed (that was easy to take up and remove) so that when two weeks from now comes, I can transport all my plants down with one layer on the truck bed and one on the platform. I have many. I've got seven trays in my bedroom and 200ish plants awaiting me at the A Farm. So. Many.
But I just ran out of time and energy. I couldn't find the right sized boards or plywood and while my headache was mostly gone, I was tired. So I'm driving down next weekend to help my parents with strawberry planting and to get the supplies for the bed. Basically, I need two 57 inch 2x4s to lay in two little divots in the truck bed sides and a 57 inch 1x4 to lay on the tire wells for my side to side support and then two or three boards to lay front to back and then the plywood on top.
It took me forever to get the motivation to pack up and get on the road and it drizzled the whole way. This is a problem because my truck's windshield wiper options are: 1 wipe (basically manual wiping), wiping so it finishes a sweep and comes right back up with no time pause, and super fast speed. That's it! Since there's no slow speed and regular speed drives me nuts and makes squeaky noises, I drove for 3.5 hours manually hitting the windshield wipers every 5 to 20 seconds. The. Whole. Drive.
I'm in NY, tired and going to bed soon because I have work in the morning.
