FishinBC's Blog

Off topic rant...
Jun 25, 2007 | 11:58 AM PST
Tags: vegetable garden , Uninvited Guest

My Saturday started out just the way I wanted it, I had bought some marked down cone flowers and brown eyed susans at Lowes on the way home Friday night.  Got up had my tea and began preparing the places I planned on putting them.  After getting them in, I did some weeding and clean up around the outside.  We have a house full coming for Fourth of July week and I want everything looking nice, so I had my whole list to work on all week.  Ryan helped put up the last of the decorations while I finished up watering and weeding.

Hubby’s cousin had come recently and spent a few days with us on Memorial weekend and happened to buy a new pickup.  He left his old one at our house and planned to swing by sometime soon and pick it up.  No problem.  I asked DH to move it off the back drive way so that I could blow off the debris from the rain and clean up the back.  He called his cousin to just check about something with the gear shift.  C

Cousin informs DH that not to worry, his mom, dad, brother, the granddaughter and the dog are on their way from Georgia to pick the truck up!!  No notice, no phone call to ask if we were busy, no courtesy whatsoever!!  Just planned to bring a car full of bodies and show up on my door step unannounced!!  I was soooo peeved.  DH took one look at my mood and began cleaning house.  I am still fuming at the lack of courtesy.  I would not have minded them coming, really.  But they could have called first!!!  We would have not known at all if hubby hadn’t called the cousin.  Am I wrong??!!?? 

 

So now I have three beds that I have to strip and wash before the INVITED company comes.  Plus all the stuff I was planning to due this weekend before his aunt showed up on my door step.  Okay…I vented and am better now.

 

My newest daylilies that I had ordered are going to bloom soon!!!  I am really surprised.  I put in those marked down perennials and steaked one dahlia that was getting heavy.  The veggie patch is doing wonderful.  I have about eight good size tomatoes blushing up and loads of green ones.  Should have a few zukes to grill out on the 4th and lot’s of banana peppers.  The bell peppers are swelling and it will be no time at all for them.  Next year there are no ifs ands or buts, we must have a bigger veggie patch.  Picked some blackberries before the critters got them and had them I my cereal.  Everything else is just watering, monitoring and deadheading.  

 

Thanks for listening to my rant gang!  Hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July!