Friday, July 23rd, 2010
This is to say I am impressed! After the recent recalls of Tylenol and other related products, we dilly dallied doing something about the recalls having other things to do around the house. Last week I finally went on-line to see what I could do to get a refund. I saw a simple form on-line and filled it up – it was pretty simple to fill it up too. I asked my husband about how it could be as simple as filling out a form for the refund and he said they’d maybe call to confirm or something. But I was checking my mail [postal] right now and in the pile of mail that had come a few days ago, there was a check in the mail for the refund for the recalled medicines. This is very fast. I cannot believe that anything can be processed so soon.
Wish government institutions could be as fast in processing important things just as this!
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Having spent so much time and energy on my garden, thought I could write more than just one blog, maybe this one will continue for a while! Just got back from another session of sweat drenching gardening. I went out at oh 6.20 in the am, to mulch my vegetable garden, thought that would keep off the grass that had grown last year and bugged me for the duration of the vegetable season. So this year the attempt is to lay newspaper and then over that, mulch. We [husband and I] did a good job by mulching as soon as we had planted the pepper area, but for one reason and another we didn’t get to the rest of the area. So, inspired by the progress that we had made on the front landscape , I finished the mulching of the vegetable garden. Some bit of newspaper is seen, but I am trusting the dear Dr Sun to pale it out and make it go into the background. Then I decided to use up the remaining manure and mulch in the front landscape around the rose and newly planted shrubs etc to keep ever hated Bermuda grass at bay. I however had to run some errands and a lack-of-continuous-sleep-so-cranky toddler kind of drained me so I gave up mentally on doing that. But after a brief nap watching a MGR Tamil movie, I was invigorated to venture out into the Golden [albeit burning sun], I did manure[I've made a verb out of manure for my convenience] and mulch some plants. Today’s job is done! I must add a note that I did not include yesterday, we have been bugged by this creeping grass that is called Bermuda grass that very villainously had grown beneath the weed sheets and more than 4 inches of rock , that my husband had painstakingly added to the front landscaping last year. I cannot believe how pointy the grass is while it pokes through the holes in the weed sheet and then spreads around. It really seems evil! A little week after we had cleared out the area and done the above mentioned task the sheet had risen [lo and behold], because of the thriving grass below. It was disappointing. We have tried to amend the area this year. If it works I will let out the secret. To top off the disappointment, our neighbors both front and back had had no problems with this grass, I am thinking this might be because of Sun sun Mr golden sun, that shines on that area, the problem area faces south and both theirs faces North, maybe that makes a difference. oh also, we have no tall trees at all. Hmm, writing all this is leading to explanations I didn’t think of before.
Anyway, tata for now!
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
I love gardening, but not having the time it takes to do a complete job, bugs me. Gardening is ofcourse an on going process, but still I wish I could achieve an amount of completeness that satisfies me mentally. The 3 years that I have lived in my new house have been spent, thinking of what more plants I can add and that thinking is put to a stop only with the seasons changing. Spring is a happy season and weather but I sometimes dread it cos I cannot live without planting and at the same time, I lack the amount of time it takes to do that!!!. In the fall, I know that soon it will be winter so there won’t be much to do and that is relaxing 
. Winter is the best, cos you can talk about spring and be pleased that there are atleast 3 months of no mowing, no watering and no gardening or minimal gardening.
Today the temperatures here are in the upper 90s right now, 95 and the heat index is 101, only because there is some breeze, I made the most of the sun , my dear white cap hopefully protected me and of course some Powerade. Speaking of which, the recent Gatorade types haven’t pleased me, this being ever since I bought a sugar free version of it. So I thought I’d switch to Powerade.
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