Green grows the house
I promise we haven't been entirely slacking, despite the lack of recent updates to the site. (If you've been reading the Weather Blog, you'd know I've at least been trying to keep that page up-to-date.) Spring has sprung, and there's big plans for the boat this year, since hopefully we won't have much maintenance work to do other than a good scrubbing of the decks to wash off a year's worth of algae and grit.
Kristin has been plotting for how to turn the upper deck into an exciting Martha Stewart-approved resort, plush with plants, lights, and comfy chairs. I'm sure she'll have more on most of that later. On the plant side of things, though, we wanted to get an early start this year. The tomatoes last year were nice and all, but they really didn't produce like I was hoping they would, so this time around we're going a more floral and herbal route. Over the past few weeks we've picked up probably a dozen different types of seeds, from morning glory to poppies to sunflowers to cilantro. We've started them inside in Dixie cups, and they're at the point now that we're out of counter space and they need more sun, so on Tuesday, we bought a greenhouse at Fred Meyer, and I proceeded to assemble it in the light drizzle yesterday, so we could move everyone outside but keep them somewhat protected from the elements.
There it is all shiny and completed, with the tray of seedlings on the second shelf, a bunch of herbs on the third, and some early flowers on the top. So far it looks good - the little bit of sun we had this morning raised the internal temperature to the mid-60s while it was still in the low-50s outside.
We'll keep everyone posted on how the plants are progressing, and once they're growing robustly and wrapped around poles and such, there will probably be lots of photos as well (right, Kristin?)
As a side note, in the background of the photo you can probably make out what looks like a giant dark blue and green fast food restaurant floating on the lake. That's a big, ugly houseboat that came into our marina about three months ago and replaced a shiny, much smaller, sailboat. We're stuck with that in our line of sight all summer long, apparently. Thankfully the rest of the view is still around!
Comments
I'm such a slacker! I so ashamed. Your weather site puts me to shame. I hang my head. I will update. I hereby publicly proclaim: I will post a new entry on the blog at least once weekly for the remainder of the... season, at least.
Posted by: Kristin | March 28, 2006 10:40 AM