Monday Night

Jake called me after lunch (he'd stopped at my house to check out the paint). He asked what time I'd looked at the finished job. I said, "Oh, around 8:00 PM and it was still drying, why?" He said there was no way I could call the walls a dramatic mix of dark and light, because its only dark where I cut in (in the corners, around the picture hangers, wall plugs and switches, etc.). He said the only thing I could call it is a room that needs another coat of paint!

Sigh...

So, after work, I stopped and picked up all my prescriptions and went home to see for myself (after all, once you put the furniture back and hang up the pictures, you are looking at a whole lot less wall, right?) No, he was right... looks bad...

So, I grabbed my remaining paint can (it had the mix formula on top) and drove to Garden City (nearest Ace hardware store). Sounds far, but around here I go to different cities in a flash! (its 4 miles away, BTW) Paid more for this gallon than I did for the first two (but I got them on sale at Damman Hardware when they were going out of business). Turned around and got back home at 6:30 PM.

Decided it was too late to paint tonight (and I was too sore). So, I went out and planted the last flowers. Now I bought these impatiens last week at lunchtime (if you remember) at Clyde Smith's green house. For those of you who don't live around here, its an old family farm that now has 6 acres of greenhouses, many devoted to just one type of flower (say a greenhouse that just all kinds of marigolds, or yes, there was one that was just impatiens). So, got them all planted and grabbed a tag (I like to keep the tags in case I really like a flower, so I can buy it again next year) take a look at it and it says "Vinca" NOT "Impatiens"!!!

Why does that matter? Because Impatiens like partial sun to shade, and Vincas like full sun. Oh, well, it will be a true test of the actual level of sunshine the garden gets now that the big pine tree is gone, I guess.

Spent the rest of the evening (until it was dark) watering all of the last-sown grass seed, the plants in the rear garden (new hose setup worked GREAT!) Went inside and cleaned up. Started channel flipping and something on CBC caught my eye: "Red Green's Duct Tape Forever" Laughed until it was over and went to sleep.