Sick of gardening yet?

[lostinmyway]

Hello, all!

You probably already saw Luke's post about helping out with the harvest this weekend at the farm. Well, it seems great minds think alike! As Robert and Grune are co-maintainers of the Memory Garden, Golden and I have been discussing the fact that it's getting to be the time of year to put it to bed for the winter. More or less. I'm kind of fudging things here.

This would include planting bulbs and certain bushes/shrubs for the spring, wrapping up smaller or more delicate bushes, covering less hardy beds with leaves, general raking and tidying and fixing things up from that tornado thing we've got coming, and so forth.

Provided there's interest, we were thinking about putting up a mass log on Saturday, October 20. We'd also handwave a post advertising it; if you'd like to participate, assume Grune vaguely spread the word in your general direction. :|b

Sound good? Any questions/comments/declarations of love for either/both of us?

EDIT: Sapph mentioned that there's going to be a cold snap mid-week, which tends to be a little hard on plants and all (thanks, Sapph!). So, I'm tentatively putting forward Tuesday, October 16 instead. Anything else that might disrupt things that I've spaced out on?

Comments

[wise_maiden]

There's going to be a tornado on the 18th, though I don't know how much of a big event that will end up being, and a general cold snap during that time, just as a heads up :|b

[lostinmyway]

Hmm.... I had notice the tornado and had thought it would be kinda fun to clean up after, but I hadn't registered the cold snap. That might actually be a problem. Possibly it would be better to have things on the 16th, then--would that be doable for you?

[wise_maiden]

That sounds fine to me!

[lostinmyway]

Awesome--thanks again for the heads-up!

[windandrain]

If things from the Tornado go alright, then Saori will definitely help.

[lostinmyway]

Actually, Sapph pointed out that there's going to be a cold snap before then, which would actually be pretty unfortunate for the plants. Would you be okay with having the log bumped up to the 16th?

[faithfulflame]

Sure no problem

[lostinmyway]

Awesome. Thanks!

[i_am_not_cute]

PAO-LIN WOULD LOVE TO HELP except she's gonna be kinda sorta a little bit unconscious for the rest of October thanks to Katie draining all her glamour on the 15th. SORRY, YOU'RE JUST GONNA HAVE TO SOLDIER ON WITHOUT HER. :|

[lostinmyway]

SOB PAO-LIN. D: Grune will come visit you lots and lots in the clinic.

[healedbythelight]

Yes, provided the tornado doesn't rip the garden out of the ground, Cheria will be happy to come help!

[lostinmyway]

XD I hope not! Actually, Sapph had the excellent point that there's going to be a cold snap before then, so would the 16th work instead?

[healedbythelight]

Works for me!

[lostinmyway]

Excellent. ♥

[breezing]

ikki would probably want to go SHE LIKES HELPING AND FLOWERS.

[lostinmyway]

Awesome! Grune also likes helping and flowers, and she likes Ikki, so it's all good!

Actually, she'll be bringing along Sophie, House 34's resident four-year-old NPC, so this could get interesting. XD;;

[breezing]

8| IKKI WANTS TO PLAY WITH SOPHIE FOR SURE

[lostinmyway]

SOPHIE IS NOT SURE IF WANT BECAUSE WHAT ARE OTHER CHILDREN. :|

[breezing]

PEOPLE TO PLAY WITH SOPHIE

whose child is she, out of curiosity

[lostinmyway]

ARE THEY MEANIEBUTTS LIKE YOTSUBA? >|

Senel Coolidge and Stella Telmes from Tales of Legendia (they were canonically engaged, soooooo nobody was surprised). Senel dropped a couple of years ago and Stella did the same last year around this time. Everyone in Legendiahouse has been looking after her ever since.

[breezing]

LOL WHY DOES SHE DISLIKE YOTSUBA

oooooh, got it. I WAS CURIOUS. >>

[lostinmyway]

BECAUSE SHE SAYS MEAN THINGS AND TELLS LIES

Yeah, it's not all that well-known--Sophie flies pretty much under the radar a lot of the time.

[breezing]

LKJETKJWER CAN'T EVEN MOST HILARIOUS CHILD FIGHT EVER

[lostinmyway]

NGL I HAD SO MUCH FUN. This is what happens when you put two strong-willed children together without supervision!

[dangerouswind]

Temari visits the garden fairly often; she'd be involved. :)

[lostinmyway]

Excellent. ♥ Then she and Grune actually probably know each other fairly well by sight, since she goes every day.

[semper_cogitans]

... Wow this is pretty bad as one of the co-owners of the garden, but... Robert is having a pretty tough time on the 16th, during the afternoon...

... Hmm. Presumably he could be away for awhile in the morning, though he will be hung over, haggard and generally looking like shit. Grune is still welcome to bother him, though. |D;

[lostinmyway]

Oh lord. Don't worry about having him come. If he looked that awful, Grune would give him lots of hugs, tea, and baked goods, but she wouldn't expect him to join the gardening group.

Do you mind him missing out, though? I'm sure we could push it forward a day if necessary.

[semper_cogitans]

I don't mind, though honestly part of me does want him to show up at some point, but I don't think he'd force a reschedule for his sake anyway. :|a

Either way he will certainly get in on the following day or so because things get a lot better from that point. (Well, hopefully anyway.)

[lostinmyway]

XD;; Maybe he can help clean up from the tornado. Depending on how that goes, everything might need to be done all over again.