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[Mendalla]

Wow, what a difference from province to province and possibly community to community. We are sending people home with up to four times a day home care if need be ( incontinence care, meal prep, self care). Of course, if family lives with someone and cooks for themselves, they wouldn’t send home care for cooking. Tendency here is to keep people out of the hospital where they otherwise end up when family gets burned out.

That's been a big goal of home care in Ontario in recent years: Keeping people out of hospital. My employer is even part of programs run by hospitals in cooperation with home care agencies to try to minimize readmissions.

 

[Redbaron]

Greetings, all! Coffee and tea are ready and waiting. Help yourself.

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[BethAnne]

Oh my...not much sleep LAST night and having trouble getting my eyes open this morning...I'd still be in bed but I want to give the garbage man a piece a cake today.

 

[Tabitha]

oh yes it is garbage and recycle day here. Bins to get curbside before 8. Have a great day all!

 

[BethAnne]

Cake given and another pea fence has peas planted on both sides

 

[BethAnne]

Peas are planted...cucumbers (1 row) and carrots too (3 rows) - might do another row of carrots...next up potatoes

 

[BethAnne]

3 rows of potatoes in...debating if I want to go to the greenhouse today (15 mins away).

 

[Northwind]

Today is starting out well. I got a call from the clinic asking I'd had the bloodwork yesterday. When the phone rang, we both went uh oh at the same time. There's been nothing further so I'm assuming all is well. Hubby is cooking breakfast and we will be heading out in a bit. My treatment is at noon today. It's sunny and already 21 degrees at almost 11:00 a.m.

 

[BethAnne]

To the greenhouse: ordered our custom planters, and got the bedding plants, a tomato planter, a strawberry planter and a bleeding heart bush to replace the one that got mowed LAST year...I'll pick up the other items later as they aren't ready ready yet...I honestly don't think our garden/flowerbeds/planters have ever been done before May long weekend in my entire life This is as weird has having the house decorated for Christmas before Dec 1 (as it was LAST year). I still need to get the bleeding heart in the ground but will do that another day...fingers crossed everything doesn't blow away in the wind gusts we are now forecasted to get.

 

[Mrs.Anteater]

3 rows of potatoes in...debating if I want to go to the greenhouse today (15 mins away).

Didn’t you just have snow? Isn’t it a bit early, then?

 

[ChemGal]

Didn’t you just have snow? Isn’t it a bit early, then?

Does it matter when it last snowed?

 

[BethAnne]

Didn’t you just have snow? Isn’t it a bit early, then?

Snow last week but didn't stick and the temps are high for this coming week.

 

[BethAnne]

Does it matter when it last snowed?

We could get snow every month in Alberta...if we worried about that we'd never plant.

 

[ChemGal]

My peas are coming up, I was concerned they were rotting, but peas are easy enough to replant.
I wish I could be hardening things off right now but it's super windy, maybe if it dies down.
I need 1 more type of seed potato, not sure if I'll do a row until I get them or what the plan will be that way. It's either shopping or planting *something* this weekend.

 

[ChemGal]

Yeah, being in Calgary for so long I've come to expect snow on May long weekend. Here it's a little less frequent that it happens I would say. Anything that can handle a bit of snow - look to the forecast leading up to that weekend.
Cucumbers and squash I won't plant yet but even if I did they should be fine as they just won't germinate for a bit if we get some days where it's pretty chilly.

 

[BethAnne]

My peas are coming up, I was concerned they were rotting, but peas are easy enough to replant.
I wish I could be hardening things off right now but it's super windy, maybe if it dies down.
I need 1 more type of seed potato, not sure if I'll do a row until I get them or what the plan will be that way. It's either shopping or planting *something* this weekend.

I used the uneaten potatoes from the bin...still need to buy onion sets (the local hardware said they were backordered) and from the greenhouse - corn, strawberries for the planter, melons and something else that I can't think of right now...I do have one extra row that I can plant something in but not sure if I'll plant beans or not, or if I'll even put anything in it.

 

[BethAnne]

It's been years since I actually planted the garden area - though I usually do the planters every year - forgot how much fun it is.

 

[ChemGal]

It's been years since I actually planted the garden area - though I usually do the planters every year - forgot how much fun it is.

Just remember to pace yourself! For the smaller seeds like beets or carrots just doing one of those is enough!
How big of a garden plot do you have? I would guess quite a bit bigger then mine since you're not in a city.

 

[BethAnne]

Just remember to pace yourself! For the smaller seeds like beets or carrots just doing one of those is enough!
How big of a garden plot do you have? I would guess quite a bit bigger then mine since you're not in a city.

Not sure as I've never measured it and I don't think mom did either...I'd say roughly 30 ft x 30 ft...and I'm not planting much so have the rows quite spaced apart.

 

[ChemGal]

Not sure as I've never measured it and I don't think mom did either...I'd say roughly 30 ft x 30 ft...and I'm not planting much so have the rows quite spaced apart.

Oh, so not huge the way some can be, but a good size.
I started with about 10x10, Chemguy expanded the area when he put in garden boxes now it's 3 4x12 boxes with paths around each. I think I could handle double the number of boxes (although I don't see us doing that) 30x30 would be about 12 boxes of the current setup though - I guess if I did more squash and no tomatoes in planters, just in the boxes that I could manage it but it would be exhausting!