2026, My year of Garden Narcissism

[ducks4you]

PRINTERTOPIA
When late DH shuttered his office we packed up all of the printers. I now have 9 laser printers in the house, the oldest one, HP 1020, is downstairs, but I couldn't print to half of them. Last weekend it was WAY too wet to mow, so eldest DD went printer by printer and downloaded drivers, named them all, labeled them all with a readable hand written tag packaging taped on each AND the numbers of their toners. Only one gave us trouble, an HP color laser, so we will revisit that later. We named that one, "LeRoy Jenkins."
DD's are on staff for Anime Iowa and wanted a printer, so I am gifting THEM the Dell color laser 4 in 1.
6 are b&w laser, 3 are color laser, 2 make copies, 1 was my office workhorse, HP Laserjet P1606dn, and one of the b&w, the Brother HL-L2320D is troublesome--you cannot manual feed it and it is Constantly telling you to reset every time you change the toner or the drum.
THAT one is going in the town wide garage sale first weekend in June.
For the average person it should be fine. When I have to Quickly print 250-300 pages of loan documents it is a Pill.
She got my Dual Tray printer working, the Brother HL-L5200DW!!!

This is my 2nd Dual Tray.
The first one lasted 8 years of my use and abuse.
SInce it was lower end--not a $3K+ model--I had to retire it for some heating element that was failing.
My friend who sells printers said it was a goner.
We only need to buy 3 printer cables and one b&w toner, for the Canon ImageClass MF4450, another 4 in 1.
DH used this to copy court filings. He signed all motions, etc. in blue ink, so he knew that His copy was b&w.
Now, if I could get some good Sleep, I am ready to do more loan signings.
Btw, "4 in 1" means: copy, print, scan, fax

 

[heirloomgal]

Downstairs I had left a paper sack full of small potatoes from 2025 that had sprouted. I also found, in a closed Jar of all places, garlic cloves that Were sprouting.
Yesterday I decided to plant them all and to transplant the Red German Garlic over to the northmost bed, from the one further south of it.
All told I transplanted:
1) 12 Red German Garlic
2) ~25 Garlic cloves, probably White Porcelain Garlic
3) 41 sprouted potatoes, about 1/2 some kind of white potato and 1/2 Adirondack Blue
I discovered 3 volunteer potatoes from what wasn't harvested last year, so I Will get some potatoes.
Otherwise...

Adirondack Blue

 

[ducks4you]

Middle DD gave me some Mother's Day gardening mad money. I spent it on some nice 40+ rectangles of garden soil. I also picked up more tomatoes, a 6 pack of peppers and a 6 pack of eggplant, which I have never grown before.
Still need to prep the areas, like move two 12 ft 6 ft tall fencing panels to the east and west sides of the cistern.
I pulled the 40 gallon winter water horse tank from it's summer storage, upside down, like the canoe and filled it with one package of this soil and temporarily transplanted the tomatoes, and the eggplants. I transplanted the sweet peppers to another ceramic pot.
These are ALL within close reach of water, and I am keeping an eye on them daily.
The tomatoes, peppers and eggplants were in 6 packs and I choose the ones with extra plants in them.
I have separated vegetables so many times that is old hat for me.
Usually the roots come apart fairly easily, but I would soak them in a bucket of water for a good hour if it's tougher.
ANYway, I am buying time.