Cold and Windy

It's been miserable for gardening this week. But I really hate my classes right now, so I am gardening none the less. I ripped out the front garden, it had become overgrown for the space and I planted some young flowering plants, carnations and some blanketing plants and a blueberry bush. The bush is covered in what will be berries right now, and we'll get a good crop off this bush this summer, but if we want more next summer we have to plant at least another bush of a different variety this fall. Hopefully we can get some produce off of them. I ignored the "full sun" sticker on the plants. My back yard can be like death valley in the summer, and since I don't want to cook the poor bushes, I'm hoping the shady but cooler front will be better for them. If not, I'll do a move to the back for the berry plants. I suppose the strawberries survive just fine, but they seem to act almost weed like, spreading anywhere where there is a speck of dirt.

I think I'll put down some mulch in my vegetable garden paths today. It's something I was hoping to do in less windy/less cold weather, but after 4 days of waiting for warmth, I think I better not wait any longer. I have some corn and pepper plants to bed too, again was waiting for the sun, but it seems like it'll never happen.

I really, really hate my classes, even my photoshop class. I wish for assignments so I could work on something to turn it, but it is a series of in-class tutorials. My math class is difficult. I think I have a C, and I really have no motivation to work on the studies. It's not fun, it's not interesting... even Ken says it's not what it's supposed to be. My psych class is still slow, there is a lot of reading to do, but it isn't that important to the class which is weird. I think what is missing now from my studies are projects, due dates or assignments. I have a quiz in math and a quiz in psych once a week, that's it. It's hard to stay motivated to study all the time for those two quizzes. I can't do math at home during the day without a tutor, but when Kenny gets home the last thing he wants to do is tutoring. (I'm a miserable math student to tutor.) Anyway, it's been an awful 5 weeks, I can't wait for this quarter to end... The summer catalogue of classes was disappointing. There are no classes available that fulfill my degree requirements, and I needed a "fun", degree oriented class to help re-motivate me after this depressing and difficult quarter. I think I don't have to take classes (I have to be sure, that scholarship requires me to take so many credits each quarter). Anyway, I am strongly thinking about the summer off... we could use the financial break for a quarter to catch up with some bills, and the kids will be home and bored if I'm not there to direct them to activities.

Well, I'm bundled up and ready to work in the garden for an hour before I have to pick the kids up. Here I go!