This morning i got up, and felt a great sense of purpose!
well, not really, but I woke up early so i had 4 more 'extra hours' to evade boredom, so I did some preparatory stuff to get ready for my glorious return to Maryland.
FIRSTLY, I took the time and put another (my last) japanese maple into the ground. Here's the maple in its oversized pot, which it had actually grown in enough to hold all the dirt together!! Thrilled. Its a little bit thin. in fact, its very thin, but I like the branches so BY PUTTING IT IN THE GROUND it'll grow a lot faster because the roots will be uninhibited. Also, I put a piece of wood beneath it so that when it grows, the roots don't go down, but outward.
From there I repotted a Black Birch that I have from a crappy, badly draining sandy soil to a more rich, better draining loamy/stone dust mix, and a little Aluminum Sulphate to increase the acidity in the soil. I also added some Alumina to the Highbush Blueberry. Then I went out to the woods and came back to a cluster of Highbush blueberries that had caught my eyes as I patrolled the woods for trespassers (damn kids and their smirnoff ices)
As with moth Highbush Blueberries that I've found, there is a significant amount of deadwood, in this case, of the veritable forest we have here, only about 2 trunks are still alive. The rest are dead. I think this is going to be my first forest-style (yose ue)
As you can see, its a pretty sizable bonsai. My largest, in fact. Its going to be a little hard to get this down to Maryland, and find a place for the box, but I'll manage, hopefully.
Here it is in its grow box. you can see how big this one is. I need to make some kind of ceramic vessel for this eventually. It'll be my largest one yet.
Then I went out to the archery range and shot some more. After tightening a couple screws that were loose and rattling, I evidently needed to re calibrate the sights for some reason, so my shooting was pretty crappy at full length. my half-length however, is excellent. And at about 18 yards or so I can repeatedly shoot a 50 or so out of 60 points, sometimes more. My personal record for the longer 25 yard was also broken when I scored a 51 after finally recalibrating. The problem however, was that the arrows were so close together one of the bullseye (10 points) arrows got hit by another arrow that also hit the bulls, so I needed a new nock on that one. Still, unlike the last time I shot, I was shooting a smaller target (40 cm, i think) so I'm definitely progressing.
I concentrated most on using only my trapezius muscles and waiting till i sight the target steadily before releasing, and after a breif adjustment period out came the 51. I need a new sight though, its too easy in readjusting my current one to screw up the adjustment entirely.
Eventually I came home, and decided to recycle an old ripped pair or shorts, some oatmeal containers and some wire, and pissed away 3 hours making this handy-dandy quiver, which was a fun excersize in making use of stuff. I'm really not keen on blowing a ton of money on something as simple as this, so I was pleased with my result.
This'll make shooting at home a little easier as I won't have to spend so much time getting the arrows back to the shooting spot or something. I dunno it'll make me look cool. or a dork. or both, whatever who cares
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