…and we spent yesterday afternoon hacking frozen ground and moving semi-frozen mulch. Our neighbor now thinks he doesn’t want a wall where we were going to put it, so we had to rip up a wee bit more sod and (in a mild wind) get the newspaper down and then weedcloth and then mulch over a final pile of lawn waste and dirt, so it will compost. Jane did the lion’s share of the mulch-moving, and I laid newspaper and weedcloth and moved a little mulch; plus got the brussel sprouts disconnected from the giant stems of brussel sprouts they had for a bargain at the store. Brussel sprouts are generally so spendy we don’t get them often, but these were two huge stems (read, 3 gallons) of sprouts, which grow like hollyhocks, for 5.00. Couldn’t resist. I brought home these things that look like alien life, and we had steamed brussel sprouts for supper, with cinnamoned ham. Yum. I have enough brussel sprouts to go until Thanksgiving or beyond.<\/p>\n
I also got the pump I’d ordered for the skimmer for the marine tank: good thing: I don’t like the tank to be skimmerless for 5 days!
\nIf you wonder what a skimmer does, it’s the surf of a marine tank. When the ocean laps the shore, the amino acids of dead sea life make this froth, which is (in a marine tank) allowed to decay to a nasty green soup, which is then thrown out with some distaste. There was some viral video last year of a beach in Australia where 15′ high banks of froth had gotten kicked up, and people were letting their children frolic ‘in the sea foam’….<\/p>\n
Every marine hobbyist in the wide world was shaking his head and going…”Oh, yuuuuuckkkk…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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