Yes, there is actually something that can be harvested right now.
The rhubarb is doing fantastic, and there’s even a flower coming up in southwest corner patch.
I didn’t get anything else done in the garden. I didn’t even do the watering, counting on the rain we are supposed to get today.
My first task of the day was to call up our tax preparer to see if they could figure out why our return was shortchanged by about $2500. The person I talked to before was still on holidays, but the person I spoke to was able to look at my husband’s account at the CRA – something my husband still can’t do – and saw the numbers. She couldn’t see why we didn’t get the full amount. Basically, we were shorted my entire Disability Tax Credit, and then some. The person who did our taxes will be back next week, so she will make sure what happened gets passed on to her and hopefully she can figure it out.
So at least a week before we find out what happened.
Meanwhile…
I decided not to go to Costco for our stock up shop (I’ll cover that in my next post). Instead, I headed into town to visit my mother, then continued on to the nearer city to stock up at Walmart.
The truck behaved normally on the way to town. As I started to do my shopping, the battery gauge had dropped again, still within the normal range and returning to where it usually is after driving for a while.
It’s hell on my nerves.
Knowing I would have refrigerator and frozen stuff after shopping, I made a slight detour first to pick up gas, did my shopping at Walmart, then headed home.
Once everything was unloaded and the truck parked, I quickly changed into my grubbies and fired up my brother’s little riding lawn more. I’d intended to use the push mower to do the edges first, but that would have taken too long. I was already heading thunder in the distance and just needed to get the jungle under control.
I definitely put that mower through its paces! It’s been so humid that the tall grass and dandelions don’t really dry out from the morning dew. It was all quite wet on top of being thick and overgrown.
While I was mowing, I got our first alert blaring on my cell phone. A tornado warning for our region. “Our region” clearly didn’t include where we are, though, as the system hadn’t reached us yet, and I kept mowing.
Still, I managed to get the east, south and west lawns done before I started getting slightly rained on. I did a few checks around the yard before going in, during which we got a second alert blaring on my phone, and just had to grab some rhubarb. I have no idea what it’ll be used for. If my daughter’s don’t use it, I’ll just make a quick compote.
As I write this, we are finally getting an actual rainfall. According to the weather map, there is a thunderstorm right on top of us. As I look out my window, I see no wind waving the branches of the big maple. In fact, from this part of the house, I couldn’t even tell it was raining. My daughters have their window open and told me they could hear it, but it’s definitely not a major storm. Checking the alert map, the “severe weather alert” area is to the south of us, and well into the middle of that is a single patch of “extreme weather alert”.
The rain is supposed to continue all night until about 8am tomorrow. Which is good timing, since we need to be on the road by 8:30am to get my older daughter to her follow up appointment at the Women’s hospital. She did get a call already and given the biopsy results – she does NOT have cancer – but she will probably need surgery.
The rain is supposed to start up again by 7pm tomorrow and continue through the night, with a bit of rain the Thursday after. I might be able to get more transplants in then, or on Friday. I have my medical appointment on Friday afternoon, but it’s a telephone appointment and not until 3:30. Thursday and Friday as going to be downright cool in comparison, then it’s supposed to heat up again, so I’m really hoping to get the rest done by the end of Friday. Well, the stuff that’s ready, anyhow. It really sucks that my melon and winter squash seeds and seedlings got eaten! Right now, I’ve got some surviving melons, and a couple of winter squash very quickly germinated, but I’m not seeing anything else coming up yet.
Ah, well. We’ll work with whatever survives. I’m rather happy with the non-stormy rainfall we’re getting so far. It means the transplants have a better chance of surviving!
Hopefully, it won’t be much longer before we have something besides rhubarb to harvest.
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 