I’ve been weeding the fence line bed for two days. Fuck everything about wild onion, BTW. In good (if more digging) news, my trees (sticks, really, but healthy sticks) from the Arbor Day Foundation arrived. Four each of American mountain-ash and downy serviceberry, plus two free little forsythia and a free red maple. They’ll have […]
I was going to weed when I got home, but when I opened the bedroom window for Miff, I got inspired to get the Man Cave windows to open, and get one of the screens installed because it had none. The window that would open had no screen, and the one with the screen wouldn’t […]
Another one under my 2015 belt! I started right after I got home; seeded the bed, shredded what was shreddable from the pile beside the bed, spread it over the seeds, took the unshreddables to compost, trimmed the grass I couldn’t mow last Thursday because there was a pile beside the bed, spread a light […]
It was waaaaay too much work to just call it a flowerbed. It was an undertaking! On Friday afternoon, I took half a day vacation and stripped off the grass. The crabgrass, quack grass, and clover, all rooted at the core of the earth. No pictures; I was too tired. On Saturday, it was supposed […]
Mah grassz. Look at dem. I was supposed to be doing laundry, but I was tired of looking at overgrown grass and weeds, so I finished mowing the lawn. Too lazy to make a pano. Miracle tuliptree is making branches. Little branches, but it’s only a little tree! The new gearbox for my tiller finally […]
B came in and asked if I wanted a baby rabbit. At first, I thought he’d found a dead one and was just being mean, but the lawn care guys must have flushed a nest, and this little dude was huddled next to a pipe on the side of the building. He’s a fast little […]
There I was, minding my own business, measuring bags of topsoil to calculate square footage (sold in pounds) when a rogue “Sweet Tea” honeysuckle fell into my hands. It caught me off balance, and as I fell through the checkout, it rolled under the scanner and I was forced to pay for it. Tragic accident! […]
All I did after work was dig dandelions, and 2.5h hardly made a dent, but at least it’s a few hundred thousand seeds that won’t end up in my flowerbeds. Anyway… I guess this hydrangea likes me more than the old lady. Last year, it had exactly two blooms. P’s bachelor’s buttons (which I have […]
It was raining, and I didn’t expect to see Tree Dude, but they were all finished, ready to be paid when I woke up from my nap. The birds lost a few perches, but they’ll adapt, and I can actually plant something over there now, I think. I’m going to wait for a sunny day […]
I didn’t take pictures because I didn’t quite finish the mulch, but I cleaned and seeded the bare spots in the Honeysuckle Horseshoe yesterday. I put in scarlet sage, purple coneflower, plains coreopsis, golden wave coreopsis, dwarf cosmos (looks like Bright Lights, but short), dwarf cosmos Ladybird Lemon…something else, I think, and a few experimental […]