Of wells and iris beds Saturday, September 01, 2007 *falls over and is dead* Not a bad day, just tired. I'm actually in a pretty good mood. Colin and another guy came over and worked on the roof. Man, they got SO much done…he’s so awesome. Now to pray it doesn’t rain, because it’s not tarped. >_< It’s working out really well. He’s aware of my problems in *some* quarters, and he and I are good, thank God for that. But, while I was out digging up my Iris bed to separate the rhizomes and replant, as well as plant some more (I have one called Night Owl…it’s black. Oooh. And Queen of Fire! And Rainbow Catcher. And some of them are re-blooming, which would mean Irises twice a year, if they take!) my mum came out and told me that we didn’t have any water. She’d been doing the first load of laundry, and the well pump just kept turning off. This is great, right? Because it’s not just the weekend, it’s Labor Day weekend. So we had a hard time finding anyone who would come out. The guy who put in the well did, though, despite the fact he’s retired, and analyzed the situation…and we need a new pump. So his replacement is coming Tuesday. No water till then, though if we fiddle with things, we’ll get enough to flush the toilets, using a bucket. So, guess who’s sneaking down to the school gym to bathe? >_< Anyway! I ran down to town with the laundry and re-washed it because the clothes, even though they’d reached the rinse cycle, where covered in some sort of grit. And I’m drinking a milkshake from the Dairy Queen (Blueberry…never had once before, it’s nice!) next door, so really, it wasn’t a bad trip. I bought some gallons of spring water, because the spring I was hoping to pinch some water from is all damaged and not flowing well, and I figure we’ll survive. I’m not thrilled with the expense of the pump, coming now when I’m paying people to fix the house, but such is life. When I got back home, I replanted my Irises at last. The bed looks pretty nice, I think, and I’m really, really hoping that every single one will take. I want to see those glorious colors in real life! It’s amazing, I started with 7 plants. Four of them died right off, so I moved the rest, and now I have almost twenty. Before I planted these new ones I had a rust-red, a yellow and a blue (which didn’t bloom this year, so I moved it to the bed. It was next to the house.) so it’ll be fun to have some more colors. Am I blathering? I think I am. I’ll go finish sewing my blouse, perhaps…the Ren-Faire is now going on, and I am trying to convince mum, whose getting to go (Yay! Is it pathetic my mum is one of my very best friends?) that she wants to wear one of my costumes. Also: Go here and download free eBooks! They are sponsored by companies, so the authors get .50 cents a download. Inverloch, that fabulous comic I told you about, is there, as is a neat book on pirates, a interesting book on culinary words, and tons of classics. I see now it even has “Penny and Aggie”, which I loved, but got lost on…somehow I didn’t start reading in the right place, and got mixed up. If you are a college student, this might save you some change. Labels: gardens, iris, wells Permalink Cindy scribed this at 7:41 PM 0 comments

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