I kept saying it was too much work for one person, and between the goddamned crabgrass and the clover rooted in the earth’s core, it was, but I by god did it myself! My flowerbed is 20′ long by 9′ wide; it was going to be 10′, but I wanted to make sure there was […]

Warm today, and sunny, but only about 60, so not too hot to be digging and uprooting grass, which is what I’m doing. Before that, though, this one is from yesterday, post-thunderstorm with wind. D is lucky he has a roof; this Osage orange didn’t miss by more than a few feet. In better news […]

It rained off and on a little today, but was clear at 4, so I rushed home to start laundry and get something planted in the little corner of the Bee Happy bed that I didn’t have time for yesterday. It was close; it started to rain about 10 minutes after I’d planted the red […]

Today, I left at lunch to pick up the 8 remaining bags of mulch. I bought 4 more, and a flat of pink annual salvia fell into my cart. They had red, but it grows too tall, I think. If it’s coccinea, it does…I’ll have to check. I came home, scarfed leftover pizza, then went […]