Misc. doings

[tagryn]

* Uploaded 3 photos from our trip to Chincoteague two weekends ago to my flickr account.
* Cleaned out the gutters on the house over the weekend. I noted during a thunderstorm on Friday that one gutter had water pouring over its side, and when I reached in and pulled a bunch of leaves from its opening there was a tremendous WHOOOSH and a flood of water came out the other end for a good 2-3 minutes. That probably means it had been completely clogged for a while, and the water had been sitting in there for some time. Not good to have that weight there, and probably more than a few mosquitoes were coming from that, too. Problem solved.
* Did more fence staining on Saturday, fence is a little over half done.
* Garden is coming along. We took receipt of a small Meyers' lemon tree that I potted, with the intention of keeping it inside over winters. We'll see how it does. The zucchini is already sprouting flowers, and it'll be an interesting race to see whether the tomatoes or zucchini wins out in the raised beds.
* The black-eyed Susans that I planted last year in the front came up again this year, we should be getting flowers on them in another week or so.
* We stopped at Wegmans in northern Virginia on Sunday - its easily the best supermarket chain in the DC area. We always seem to find interesting items there, like this time we discovered they make pretzel rolls - think a regular roll, but made of pretzel bread. Yum! We bought a dozen. They also have a good selection of ethnic foods, though I passed on getting babka this time. Donna did make a delicious French toast on Sunday out of challah bread and fresh strawberries.