I bought 6 more bags of paver base , 10 bags of sand, and 3) 8′ landscape timbers yesterday. I decided everything was so wet that I didn’t want to make 2-3 soggy trips with HK, and still not have a way to get 8′ timbers home, so I’m coughing up $40 for delivery. All […]

Actually, these are flowers because I forgot to take a picture and now it’s too dark. I’ll take one in the morning. I went at lunch and got 10 bags of paver base, which won’t be enough, but was quite enough for HK to carry. Again, it started raining just as I got home. I […]

I pulled the weeds out on Sunday, discovering a million carpenter ants. P pulled up the old wood edging, discovering a billion more. It was raining a bit when I got home yesterday, but I shovelled out the soft dirt anyway; I put it down by the brush pile. Now I just have to rake […]

I got wibbly concrete to put around my little dogwood. I wanted the least digging possible, so I literally set it on the ground and painted the ground on the inside, then followed outside the line to allow for concrete. Had a hell of a time fitting it, but finally got it done without much […]

I actually feel like I had one! It’s Sunday, and I was very lazy today, but I did get some stuff done, and for once, I have nothing waiting to be planted! Friday after work, I stopped at Buchheit, bought some plant stakes, two terra cotta trays for butterfly puddles, and two very expensive spotlights. […]

Sarcasm definitely intended. I got six more bags of mulch. That’s practically it. I even had help unloading it. I did manage to dump a bag of it on the bare spot in Sarah-Flah’s garden. That’s all, though; I need more in the centre, but have to weed it first. Too goddamned hot today after […]

Tree Dude came yesterday to take out the dead pin oak and the branch supporting it. He had some free time, so he was able to get here before a week from Friday, when he’d said he could. I’ll take it! Why I’m not a Tree Dude. Yikes! Lots more sun down there. Tree Dude […]

Since I accomplished very little, mostly pictures of flowers and my faterpillars, AKA very expensive eating machines. Cosmos Dwarf Ladybird Lemon Red bee balm, not named First Virginia Stock. Others are pink, but not yet open. White is kind of boring. Mexican hat, first one Expensive faterpillars. Eating expensive leaves of Virginia snakeroot. Evening primrose.

When I got home, I had two surprises. One, the long-awaited snakeroot was here. Postmarked June 1st, and clearly marked USPS 3-day Priority Mail. Apparently, USPS can neither read a calendar nor count to three. Anyway the plants were quite wilted, but he’d packaged them well, and the roots looked healthy. Second surprise was less […]

Doesn’t look like I did much, but it was so hot that I’m lucky I did anything! I did most of the laundry on Saturday night so I’d have Sunday free to plant the last part of Sarah-Flah’s garden. Sarah’s garden is finished except I’m short a few bags of mulch. I got the trellis […]