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I planted strawberries last year, they did little but stand in the dirt. This year, well, it was an absolute invasion. They’re June Bearing, today is the 1st of June, and coincidently my very first strawberry would have been ripe today. I almost picked it yesterday, but I decided I would wait, well, something -or- someone beat me to it. I went looking for it this afternoon, to enjoy the oh so lovely sweetness that only food grown in your garden can have, and it was gone! I never imagined I would be so irritated over the loss of a single tiny piece of fruit, who would have thought?

My visit to Lurgan Greenhouse last Monday was quite the shopping extravaganza. I only purchased plants from the outside perennial section and some from the herb area next to it, a tiny fraction of the entire complex, but I still had my entire cart full, which meant the car was full on the way home.

With the other ‘more important’ yard work needing to be done, along with ‘living’ that also needed to be done, and of course the whole tooth drama that needed dealt with… well, I just didn’t get those plants into the ground.

I suppose here is when I ‘just casually’ mention I’ve been seeing someone for much of this month, nearly a month, twenty days? He came down this evening and we managed to get the bulk of the plants into the ground. It was really quite fun, for me at least. Hmm, perhaps fun isn’t precisely the word, but more of fulfilling, satisfying, gratifying even.

The experience helped to reinforce why I’ve been wanting this rose garden. It was so very nice to sit there on the bench, surrounded by roses about to burst into bloom, particularly nice because he was there.

I still mourn the demise of Airbourne Express, it is particularly painful with the rise of DHL to prominence. I ordered a few roses the other day, the company didn’t make any overt indication as to how it would be shipped other than the options to choose standard or express. Well, I’m certainly not in a hurry so why should I pay extra? Apparently their Standard delivery is DHL, I about cried, okay… not really, but I was rather ticked. It’s bad enough that they’re involved at all, slow as all hell, as they say. I come to find in even more horror that once the package arrived in Harrisburg, to the sort facility, it was handed off or rather “tendered” to the USPS! DHL is now too lazy to even deliver their own packages?! While I don’t have a problem with USPS in general, our particular mail carrier is a moron, we are forever receiving mail meant for other addresses on the street, and I’m sure those other people are getting ours. I would rather get the mail later in the day than have my mail scattered around the neighborhood before I ever receive it.

With that oh so convenient hand off to USPS my package now is untrackable, so it would seem, I might get it today, maybe even tomorrow, but it could sit in some mail warehouse until Monday… there’s just no way to tell. What’s the point? Why not just send it USPS in the first place if they’re delivering it anyway? It’s not like DHL refuses to deliver to such a “rural” area, haha, they’re the people you are forced to use when there aren’t any other options!

Major changes have been happening over at Positive Fusion, but I’m going to take a moment to bitch about Internet Explorer.

Okay, it’s the same ol’ same ol’, really. One writes valid, semantic, xhtml… IE butchers it all to hell.