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I had today off, so I spent the day looking after Jack and uploading photos to Flickr. Actually, Jack was a tired chap and only just woke up around 5pm, so I didn't get to spend much time with him. Hooray for the weekend!

Last weekend I had the first real bout of gardening outside in quite a few months. I removed the straw and topsoil winter cover from the roses out the front, and was surprised to see two of the plants budding already. The other two look like a bunch of dead sticks, so hopefully they'll spring to life over the coming weeks. I also did a bit of weeding out the front (weeding the backyard is this weekend's fun chore!), and dug up the winter rye grass in the veggie patch around back and ploughed it under. It should break down sufficiently by the time I'm ready to start planting veggies.

I vaguely recall promising some rose photos last year, but amid all the chaos, I plain forgot. It probably didn't help that it was a moderately painful process to resize and upload individual photos to my webhost and paste in the links. So to remedy this, today I gathered up all the garden photos from last year and uploaded the lot to Flickr, signing up for a Pro account in the process, and getting a little carried away uploading tonnes more.

Here's a sampling...

You can find more garden photos here.

We haven't got anything much planned this weekend. We'll be taking Jack to see the Easter Bunny tomorrow, which should be interesting. I'm also planning on transplanting some tomato and other large seedlings into cowpots, and testing out some video editing programs on the laptop. We've taken a bunch of Jack videos (using a camcorder borrowed from Carrie's parents) since he was born, but until I got some FireWire cables the other day, they've just been sitting on the tapes. Assuming I can dump the videos onto the laptop and edit them without too much effort, I should be able to create some DVDs with all the boring bits cut out ;)

Speaking of camcorders, the high-def Canon HV20 sounds pretty good....

What I'm Reading:
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing, John Scalzi
Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link




	Carn, write! a writing journal Home Get Email Updates WEBSITE PROJECTS LINKS JOURNALSCAN Email Me Admin Password Remember Me 514628 Curiosities served Share on Facebook				2007-04-06 6:28 PM Easter Roses Previous Entry :: Next Entry Mood: Content Read/Post Comments (0) I had today off, so I spent the day looking after Jack and uploading photos to Flickr. Actually, Jack was a tired chap and only just woke up around 5pm, so I didn't get to spend much time with him. Hooray for the weekend! Last weekend I had the first real bout of gardening outside in quite a few months. I removed the straw and topsoil winter cover from the roses out the front, and was surprised to see two of the plants budding already. The other two look like a bunch of dead sticks, so hopefully they'll spring to life over the coming weeks. I also did a bit of weeding out the front (weeding the backyard is this weekend's fun chore!), and dug up the winter rye grass in the veggie patch around back and ploughed it under. It should break down sufficiently by the time I'm ready to start planting veggies. I vaguely recall promising some rose photos last year, but amid all the chaos, I plain forgot. It probably didn't help that it was a moderately painful process to resize and upload individual photos to my webhost and paste in the links. So to remedy this, today I gathered up all the garden photos from last year and uploaded the lot to Flickr, signing up for a Pro account in the process, and getting a little carried away uploading tonnes more. Here's a sampling... You can find more garden photos here. We haven't got anything much planned this weekend. We'll be taking Jack to see the Easter Bunny tomorrow, which should be interesting. I'm also planning on transplanting some tomato and other large seedlings into cowpots, and testing out some video editing programs on the laptop. We've taken a bunch of Jack videos (using a camcorder borrowed from Carrie's parents) since he was born, but until I got some FireWire cables the other day, they've just been sitting on the tapes. Assuming I can dump the videos onto the laptop and edit them without too much effort, I should be able to create some DVDs with all the boring bits cut out ;) Speaking of camcorders, the high-def Canon HV20 sounds pretty good.... What I'm Reading: You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing, John Scalzi Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link Read/Post Comments (0) Previous Entry :: Next Entry Back to Top