I called the Cooperative Extension Service this morning to get an application for the Master Gardener training. They told me that I could pick it up or they would mail it. Since I work a mile from the Garden Center, I decided to run over and get it.
The coordinator of the program told me that they usually get 85 or 90 applications for the 35 slots that will be available. I am optimistic about my chances since one question asked for times when I wouldn't be available. Because I don't have a life, I am always available. Plus they asked if I had any teaching experience. That seems like a big plus for me.
I may have hurt my chances when I showed up in my homemade Master Gardener superhero suit, complete with cape and Viking helmet. The epaulets might have been over the top, because I noticed a lot of eye rolling.
I added in the "special considerations" section that I own my own shovel and rake and that I can bring my wheelbarrow if they have a bike pump I can use. Plus, my best friend in the sixth grade, Edward Smith, lived on a farm. They're going to let me know.
The weather here in Our Fair city has been odd today. We had rain, which is very unusual for this early in June. Our rainy season is not for another month. It was also unseasonably cool. Our typical high for June 11 is 100 degrees F. Our actual high was 87 degrees. Unheard of.
On the job front, I have 18 calendar days to go. there are 14 workdays and 11 days that I will actually be at work, since I plan on taking three days off. Randall Bing will not tell us his secret plan to cover my work when I am gone, so I am moving it to my coworkers myself. Anything that I cannot get to by the 29th is being farmed off to the survivors.
Randall is an odd bird. He likes to give the illusion of managing our work group, but he doesn't really do anything. I have not spoken to him in more than week, which seems odd. If I didn't show up for the next week, I doubt he would notice. Wait, that's an idea.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
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2 comments:
I have a question about container gardening-- is there some sort of watering system you can use when you go away, so that the the plants don't dry up in the scorching sun? besides getting someone to come and water.
ps parasites are forever, Merle
Randall is working hard on your retirement party. Selecting the watch, etc.
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