Considering how much fucking work I did, I have very few pictures! Anyway, I took Friday off, and spent the day installing spot watering irrigation tubing. It was a million degrees, and I was my very own drip irrigation system, and bees were walking on my head. I didn’t take pictures because I was too hot to give a goddamn. I also laid out the soaker hose for the milkweed bed, but didn’t take photos of that because it still looks like shit.

This picture has nothing to do with any of the work I did; it’s just a very pretty Kopper King bloom, no thanks to the flea and Japanese beetles that have attacked all of my hardy hibiscus this year. Last year it was sawflies…it’s always something!

I wasn’t working totally alone; I had a beautiful Eastern Tiger boy for company. He was too busy eating to stay very still, but at least he let me get a photo.

On Sunday, I worked on the distribution line between the faucet and flowerbed. I drilled a neat hole through the border…

Then, I dug a shallow trench to bury the line. I’ll have to keep it watered so the strip of grass covering it doesn’t die back, but it looks okay. I started these lines (to Sarah-Flah’s Giant No-Mow Flowerbed) in their respective spots, then joined them farther up so I would have less digging, and less disturbed grass. I think it’ll look okay.

I also started laying emitter tubing in the Honeysuckle Horseshoe, but didn’t take photos of that, either, because there’s really nothing to see. I’m not finished, though; I needed more tubing, and some elbows.