First, a couple from yesterday. I apologised to Hirts even if they were kind of bitchy in saying, “We do not require a signature. Please check with your USPS.”  I picked up the package and responded with this picture and the words, “Apparently, you do after all.”

Also, yes, it was Plum Crazy.

Now…Patio Reclamation, the final chapter. It’s done!

I had the paver base down, so all I had to do was the sand and final placement. I used scraps of wood and kitteh hoce interior walls to pack down the sand.

It’s not magnificent, but it’s adequate, and better than having to walk around a flowerbed that’s good for basically nothing. In the end, I had to trim only one paver, which was a snap because P got me a masonry blade for my skilsaw.

Now, we just need some nicer chairs.

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I found a couple of these caterpillars while I was weeding the patio cracks. On oxalis, I think. No ID yet. EDIT: Appears to be Yellow-Striped Armyworm, Spodoptera ornithogalli

This lovely Paraphiddipus aurantius helped me finish the pavers. He’s a beauty!

That’s all for today…more work planned for tomorrow.

EDIT: Not all for today. After I got up from my nap, I went down to the new trumpet creeper and made fresh cuts on the bush honeysuckle, then treated with Bonide. I pulled some branches out of the brush pile to give then something to climb; they’re getting big enough to have the “grippers” on them. Not beautiful, but hopefully adequate.

Near dark, I was checking my new coneflower and found this.White blob is a flatid hopper nymph, and the spiky critter is an aphid lion. Let’s hope he remembers he’s an aphid lion!