It's cold -- Seattle weather, where you wear a coat but don't need gloves. I rototilled half the garden, leaving the other half under black plastic. (Interesting note: I weighted the plastic with heavy timbers and paving stones. There was nothing alive under the plastic itself, but wherever there was a weight on top, weeds had grown: the insulation of the weight kept them from being baked. Next year, shift the weights a couple times.) I planted four columbine in amidst the 30 strawberries we planted next to the MadSciHut, and put in roughly 18 tomato plants and one pepper in the main garden. Not sure what'll go in the other half or up by the fence, although that'd be a great place for tomato or some other viney/creeping plant that needs support.
I broke the trowel, so it needs welded, after I make dinner.

ARRRRGH.
Rule number one -- no, rule number zero, when buying stuff from Home Depot -- is to always check that what you grabbed from bin X is, in fact, what should've been in bin X. Like the other day when I grabbed a ballvalve from the 1" OD box, and got home, and it turns out it was a 3/4" ballvalve, so: entirely useless. Likewise, at the same time I grabbed a replacement sprinkler head from the 90 degree box, and it was a 180 degree sprinkler head.
NEVER TRUST ANYTHING.
Sigh.

With that said, I got the sprinkler system waterbreak taken apart and the trashed valve replaced, plus most of the other pieces I had to remove put back together save for a 20 cm length of PVC tubing that refused to come loose from the barbed plumbing fittings. Sooo I went to HD and bought some new tubing and will cut the old tubing off the existing fittings with a box knife, I guess.

I stapled up the 6 mil sheeting along the west wall of the bathroom, ready for cementboard. The east wall is waiting for the replacement shower mixer/valve.

Right now I am obsessed by pulsejets and H2O2 rockets, and the thought of building my own.