Went to Sam's Club this week for the first time in over a month. Picked up some basics that were getting desperately low or we'd run out of a while back --- which includes good melting cheeses for my favorite comfort food dishes. I also had a photo of a bunch of daffodils (shown at right) developed in a 16" x 20" poster-size print (~$6) that I stuck in a frame that's been uncomfortably empty for a while. The Fuji film kiosk (I have always used the Kodak machine in the past) had its issues with my picture, however. The dimensions of my photo apparently didn't jive and when it brought up the image, part of the daffodil stems toward the bottom were cut off. Tried shifting the view window, but that would have cut off some of the yellow flowers. Then, tried to de-magnify the image which was not allowed. At this point you say, "Sh--!" But then came the compromise of magnifying the image to crop out the stems shortly below the ribbon. Was a little dissatisfied with how the darkness of the white background came out. But, having put it up in the frame it seems to work in that room. It would be nice to get a photo-quality printer to get a higher degree of quality control.
Also went to Lowe's to check out what they had for tomato plants, which wasn't much. All that was there were the $3.50/each Bonnie plants. In previous years, I've gotten the traditional black plastic 6-pack of smaller tomato plants there in different varieties. I've tended toward getting the Roma and Celebrity types because they have neater appearance and a better tomato 'flesh' ratio. Sure, Beefsteaks are large, but they are very seedy and have a lot of the placenta rather than the meat --- in this regard, the name is way off. Was also looking for some more herbs for another strawberry planter --- rosemary, sage, and I've been looking for a lady lavender plant to fill the wide top opening. I mean, aren't these pretty standard things to stock? Guess we need to go to a real garden center.
Otherwise, I mowed Hell's half-acre yesterday, trudging through the allergy agony that continues today. But before that, I drove around and did a second coat of white fence paint on our municipality's road signs. They consist of 4"x4"x8' pressure-treated posts, with routered 3" letters with the road names, painted white with black lettering, and then set in concrete at their respective intersections. This was a project that my oldest brother did for his Eagle Scout award... oh... about 15 years ago, now. Since then, we've done some general upkeep and I've finished a few signs that never got made and repainted some that badly needed it. Now comes the time that many of the signs needed to be repainted, and 6 need to be re-set as either the concrete has broken up or they have been vandalized through the years. Doing the white paint is the easy part as I just went around with a 3" roller. It's painting the black lettering that is very time-consuming.
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