Days I love my job

[jenett]

*Minion opens new box of just-arrived book order, which includes Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Graveyard Book among others. Minion processes the books.*

*Minion drops The Graveyard Book on my desk*

A few minutes later:

Minion: Want me to check that out to you? *waves book*
Me: *blink* Oh, sure. Such service!
Minion: That's what you hired me for, isn't it?
Me: Well, yes.

(Minion checks it out to me, drops it on my desk. Note that I could have checked it out to myself, mind you, from my own desk, just hadn't pulled up our circ module yet. Regardless, I will miss this minion.)

In other news, my evening plans are cancelled (the last of the current prospective group members under consideration sent an email this morning saying that she feels she doesn't have time to pursue this right now.) So, I am instead going off and walking with selkie_b and buying an Earth Box so that I can plant tomato seedlings this weekend. (Seedlings coming from L, once I make up my mind which of the several varieties she has.) We're starting small, 'cause I am still new at this gardening thing.

Comments

[s1ren.livejournal.com]

Hooray for Earthboxes! I love mine. I dunno if you have mosquito issues where you live, but they do tend to breed in any standing water in the bottom of the Earthbox. I recommend taping a small piece of fine-mesh window screen, or pantyhose, over the drainage hole, and covering the top of the fill tower with same, to keep them from getting in there. Won't affect air circulation or drainage at all.

The only other problem I've ever had was that once, I plopped dirt into one too hard and collapsed part of the support structure - I didn't realize I'd done it until all my plants drowned from sitting in the water reservoir.

Otherwise, I love them. They also make excellent places to shelter transplants and cuttings, and seedlings that are hardening-off. :)

[/buttinsky] ;)