Thursday 10/05/2023
Thursday mornings I like to give the plants a shot of water before leaving. And I noticed that the white fly infestation on my big begonias is worse. I’ve been spraying stuff on these horrible little things for a while now.
So off to Shustek for a day of cataloging stuff, first documents, then a couple of objects. Finished cataloging the last of the documents in the Al Kossow collection. Al is a noted collector of stuff. Among other things, he created Bitsavers.org, an invaluable resource of old manuals (over 150K of them). A while back he donated all his remaining paper documents to the museum and we have been working through them slowly, cataloging and filing, for months. Today me and Dave Bennett did the last of them.
On the way home I stopped at the nursery on Middlefield and bought a spray bottle of Neem oil, and then spent an unpleasant half hour spraying the underside of each leaf on the begonias. Die horrid little flies, die.
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