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I spent the entire day on the other side of the Sound.

Time was running out for the free 7500 mile service on my car. And I had planned to thank Mrs. P for all her tender loving sick kitty care (done while we were on vacation) with a spending spree at the nursery of her choice. She likes Sky Nursery (as do I) which is a few miles from the Volvo dealer.

So. I got up at 7. No! I did! Seriously! First thing I did after dressing was go into the garage with a bottle of glass cleaner and a wad of paper towels and clean all the dog snot (read: Zach snot) off the cargo area windows of the newer wagon. Then I picked up Mrs. P and we took Zach to day-care. We made the 9:25 ferry, and were at the nursery by 11. We left the nursery at 2 p.m.

Yah. That's right. Three hours of plant shopping.

Mrs. P scored big time with some half-price trees and I was more modest with some spurges and ground covers. I'm even less enthusiastic about gardening this season than I was last. I'm going to request that my Jefferson County Master Gardener badge read "master curmudgeon" any day now. We put our plants on hold, since we were driving a nifty 2008 Volvo XC70 loaner (ick) and went for lunch at a Vietnamese place. Then we schlepped over to Trader Joe's, since we were in the area. It was sweet to see the Assorted Jellies and Dark Chocolate Covered Caramels that we used to enjoy so much, and no, I didn't buy any.

Then back to the dealer to pick up the car, then back to the nursery to pick up the plants and load them in the car, then back to the ferry....and there in a flash is eleven hours of my day.

Yes. I'm tired. And for frack's sake I'm glad I'm back in the land of sparse population because that traffic on 99 was starting to make me insane.