gardening, in the hope that Spring will come

I just transplanted five strawberry seedlings, from the little containers the nursery shipped them in. Only five out of a flat of twenty-five so far, because I ran out of potting soil. The planting bags arrived before the plants, but the sack of soil is still en route. I just texted my neighbor and asked if she can get me more compost. Four plants went into a planting bag filled mostly with compost, leaving four empty pockets while I wait for more soil. The fifth is in a small terra cotta pot, with soil I'm reusing from the attempt to grow herbs.

It made sense to buy a flat of 25 plants instead of paying almost as much for six, but now I am second-guessing myself.

I have texted the neighbor we got the compost from, asking whether she can get me more; I will probably offer her a few strawberry seedlings, whatever the answer to that question.

That's planting for next year: for this year, there are flowers on the cucumber plants I got a few weeks ago, and my lettuce seeds are sprouting.

my left wrist is feeling a lot better

I went over to adrian_turtle's on Thursday in something of a hurry, and forgot my wrist/hand brace until I was on the bus toward Arlington. I decided to chance doing without it, and felt at least as well as the previous few days using it.

Some of that is probably because I spent a lot less time at the keyboard, but I decided to try wearing it only to bed. That was yesterday, and it seems to be working well, at something closer to my typical level of using that hand.