-So after several months without rain and clouds grey skies and rain have finally returned to Regina. For the better part of the past few weeks we've had at least grey skies for part of most days and somewhat regular rain. The upside of this weather is that on Thursday night I got to see my first double rainbow, the downside is that it's almost always not quite as warm or sunny as I was expecting it to be at this time of year in Regina.
-Despite the grey skies, cool temperatures, and plentiful rain the plants we planted in our garden a few weeks ago are mostly growing. Sure, most of them would probably be doing a fair bit better with a few more hours of sun a day and soil that at least occasionally is a little drier, but that hasn't meant that most of them haven't continued to grow - if somewhat slowly.
Not surprisingly, the radishes are furthest along. And had this weekend not been as rainy as it was we would have even planted a second and third row so that we can start to have a stead stream of radishes. The peas and beans are also doing well, though, again, more sun would surely help.
The plants that seem to be growing particularly slowly are our pepper and corn plants. The corn plants seem not to have managed to make it beyond about three inches while the pepper plants don't seem to be any taller than they were when we moved them from indoors to the garden.
In any event, the fact that most of these plants are even alive seems kind of remarkable given the incredible number of weeds and the high clay content of the soil. I suspect that not weeds be an annual battle, but so will the soil. Who would have guessed that in a province known for agriculture that the soil is mostly just clay? In Newfoundland it's always a challenge to put a shovel into the ground because of the rocks - here the rock-free clay is just to dense and goopy for one's shovel.
-A friend of mine from library school is coming into Regina for a conference tonight and I've offered to give her a ride from the airport to where she's staying. Not only am I looking forward to catching up after about five years, having someone else in the car finally provided me with the motivation I needed to finally get around to giving the car a quick vacuum and clean for the first time since we've owned it. Not surprisingly, the back was a fair bit cleaner than the front.
-Now that our balcony rail has been in place for a week we've started thinking about our next project. As some discussion we finally settled on re-roofing our garage. Yesterday I picked up most of the supplies, though I still have to snag some flashing. So whenever the skies clear and the rain stops we'll have to start on this project. I'm a little worried that this is going to be a bit of a nasty project - but at least at the end we'll hopefully have a garage that doesn't leak quite as much as our garage does currently.
Oh, and then once we're done with the roof we'll have to move on to re-siding it. Hooray!
Fortunately, I think we've got the game plan for this more or less figured out - though that doesn't mean that there won't be surprises when we finally get around to it in a few weeks.
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