Friday, 1 April 2005
april to-do list
House:
Strip table
Make sign for the house's name
Repaint kitchen doors
Garden
Powerwash screens
Powerwash north fence
Remove storms
Wash windows
Hang screens
Finish sifting east vegetable garden
Stain north fence
Sift and amend north vegetable garden
Hoe and prepare north easement
Border north halfway
Border easement
Move Artemisia versicolor "seafoam" curlicue sage from south porch (somehow I thought it was going to be large. It's lovely, but only eight inches high.
Clean gutters
Plant new seedlings
Amend north vegetable garden's soil
Repot houseplant
Round-up grass
Rototill grass
Rototill cherry
Plant buffalo grass or zoysia or tall fescue
Mulch cherry
Weed patio
Clean coal cellar (May)
Clean furnace room (May)
Plant forget-me-not
Plant carrots, beans, spinach
Clean fridges (May)
Scrub laundryroom (May)
Sweep garage (May)
Paint porch
Get lots of vegetable pulp and coffee grounds (ongoing)
Errands
Stepstool for kitchen
Guidebook for Amsterdam
Summer bathrobe for RDC
Lisaism
SFR's birthday, 9th
RED's birthday, 19th
RKC's birthday, 29th
Life of Pi for book club, 4th
Ballot discussion, 25th
Colfax development hearing, 26th
White Teeth for book club, 28th
Reading:
Susanna Clark, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
John Leonard, Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures
José Saramago, History of the Seige of Lisbon
José Saramago, Journey to Portugal
Nancy Mitford, The Sun King at Versailles
Exercise
Bike to work
Bike to gym
Swim!