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

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.