It actually is Sunday.  I caught up! Still not done laundry, but I told P. that if he’ll take his shirts to be pressed, I’ll pay for Skanny’s replacement Seresto collar and the bird bath he wants (P., not Skanny), so no ironing. Yay! I raked up the grass from yesterday so the Lawn Nazi […]

I spent most of the day mowing the lawn. All of it. I wasnt going to do the whole thing, but I hadn’t yet decided what to plant in the flowerbed I’d dug in the morning, so I mowed and thought about it. P. was playing a tournament, and I knew he was going to […]

Not much; I was too tired to care. Portulaca coming along: I hate iris, but it does look nice with the spiderwort. I’ll leave it, at least for the time being. This is the “people plants area” anyway, and I haven’t yet filled up the back yard or south side! Butterfly food garden coming along. […]

Laundry day, so less accomplished, but… P. says this is the “tornado honeysuckle”…he’s right. It does resemble tornado! I took these on Thursday,  but didn’t get it ID’d until Saturday. Manchurian lilac ‘Miss Kim’. Im pretty sure this is Royal Purple Smoke Tree. Mexican sunflower broke ground! Less enthusiastic than the zinnia, but growing!

I’ve been busy and got woefully behind, so I’ll catch up. Wednesday was fence posts day. Concrete bucket. They cut a cable (guess whose!) because a marking was off, but got it fixed within an hour or two because J.’s wife’s father works for Charter. Whew. Ironically, where they hand-dug because they were close to […]