Oh sure, what's one more thing?

[storytimewithjoe]

My Saturday plans include...

a wedding...
a funeral...
an SCA event...
and a housewarming party.

Why do I feel like I need to start drinking heavily already?

Is it that I like feeling busy?
Is it that I am incapable of saying, "NO!"?
Is it that I feel like he who checks off the most "to do's" from the list, wins?
All of the above?

Well, I enjoyed my evening yesterday. After a good workout at the House of Pain, I returned home, made a nice dinner, and got to work on projects. C&I-wise, I did the marbelizing of the columns on the scroll I'm doing. Embroidery-wise, I cut the sleeves for my new Italian farsetto, and have a plan for the embroidery which I want to have mapped out before Sunday's all-day meeting-of-doom. If I don't have a project to work on, I'm liable to go nuts.

Garden-wise, anybody got any suggestions on what to do for hard-shelled scale? My Japanese maple often succumbs to it, and it is horrible. I keep scraping those annoying suckers off, but more appear. I have read about vegetable oils that suffocate them. Any ideas? Anybody? Buehler?

Comments

[aeddie.livejournal.com]

Options A&B.

[marymont.livejournal.com]

have a plan for the embroidery which I want to have mapped out before Sunday's all-day meeting-of-doom.

We're saved by the bell, as it were. We have to be out of the place by 6 pm. I'm going to try to make it down.

[aliskye.livejournal.com]

If you enjoy the projects you are working on, then great, keep on doing them. If not, you should cut down a little, or relax your internal watchdog that wants everything done right now. If it's the outside the house commitments that are getting you down, then yeah....sometimes you have to say no, I need a day off. Sometimes the outside events can really energize us to new heights, and sometimes they just drag us all down.

[ysabela.livejournal.com]

Only four events going on this weekend? Only four projects on the boil? Slacker!

Repeat after me: Hi! I'm Joe and I'm a workaholic.

I know, I know....pot calling the kettle....

[joeguppy.livejournal.com]

Yah, yah, yah... at least in your spare time, you can make your plans to fill out your vacation requests for GWW... HINT! HINT! HINT! :-)

[mistressrhi.livejournal.com]

Are you a Virgo, Joe? I swear you're just like Deirdre. Repeat after me: "Today, I will buck the system or break one rule." Keep saying that until you are able to wean yourself away from overcommiting. Love ya!

[joeguppy.livejournal.com]

LOL. Nope... I'm a Pisces-leaning Aries. Control-freak to the max, organized-list-maker who loves to have lots of things on the "to do" list to enjoy the satisfaction of checking them off.

Japanese Maple

[acanthusleaf.livejournal.com]

Jon (the Extreme Gardener) suggests that you do something to make the tree hardier (moving it, or fertilizing it, or whatever it needs), or help it fight off the infestation with a bit of pesticide.

I hope the tree lives. They are so beautiful.

Re: Japanese Maple

[joeguppy.livejournal.com]

well, I went to Sunnydale, and they recommended a vegetable oil spray (which is also what my internet research found). I really did not want to try extreme chemicals, so I hope this works.

So far, so good.