storytimewithjoe | Oh sure, what's one more thing?

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?