digitS'
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I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain?
I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain?
Comin' down on a Summer day?
I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain?
Comin' down on a Summer day?
stubbed toes and mud pies
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flowerbug
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dintwanna mow today. mowed anyways. pretty wet in some spots still. got a few soakers.
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flowerbug
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trash is out, rat trap set for chipmunks, Mom did take down Stonehenge III a few days ago so that area is back to normal and then yesterday there was something starting to dig through the gravel and black plastic again. 
raccoon or chipmunk... we'll see how this morning goes.
will get some weeding in and from the pathways done today for a few hours. sunny and cool to start with today but temperatures will head up to the low 80sF. it's summer and summer routine engaged...
when i got up this morning Mom's sitting in her chair with a blanket on her saying she needs to get out her winter clothes. it was 72F in here, but i did close the door and asked her if she wanted the heat turned on. then she got her coffee and is all warmed up and good to go now.
the sun's about to come over the trees and i'll have to get my blocker (a pillow that i can fold in half) out and prop it up on my knees - yep, there she is... without a blocker i'd be blind trying to type.
raccoon or chipmunk... we'll see how this morning goes.will get some weeding in and from the pathways done today for a few hours. sunny and cool to start with today but temperatures will head up to the low 80sF. it's summer and summer routine engaged...
when i got up this morning Mom's sitting in her chair with a blanket on her saying she needs to get out her winter clothes. it was 72F in here, but i did close the door and asked her if she wanted the heat turned on. then she got her coffee and is all warmed up and good to go now.
the sun's about to come over the trees and i'll have to get my blocker (a pillow that i can fold in half) out and prop it up on my knees - yep, there she is... without a blocker i'd be blind trying to type.
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flowerbug
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a few hours of weeding yesterday and then took a break, later on when the sun was fully out and in between clouds i could take a few pictures that Mom wanted. i still need to edit them, but at least i got that far with them...
plenty of weeding still to do, but it's fairly decent in most places i see. just a few areas that are problems that are gradually being corrected as i transplant ground covers (which keep so many weeds from sprouting to begin with).
today is a puttering about indoors kind of day with too much rain coming down and i have stacks of projects sitting here to ignore for a bit longer as i try to finish up a big one i've been working on for a long time. it may take me another month or two to finish, but i'm enjoying it enough to keep going. it's very picky, pedantic, detail oriented and i've come a long ways to get this far so i might as well finish it.
[ ye old accounting records project, skip the rest of this if me nattering on about what i'm doing and finding doesn't appeal to you... ]
the annoying part though is that i did throw some records away some years ago and never imagined i'd want them, but now i wish i hadn't and so those parts of this project are just stubs that show up in other places where i get to put in notes that yes, it still is an incomplete record of things even if i've gotten a large percentage of everything.
and then there are those times where i come across a transaction and i have no memory of what it was for at all. so there are mysteries in there that even i can't solve... that actually gives me some comfort in an odd way... and amazingly my OCD quirks aren't upset so perhaps i've trained myself well enough to let things go at times... which is good considering how old i'm getting.
plenty of weeding still to do, but it's fairly decent in most places i see. just a few areas that are problems that are gradually being corrected as i transplant ground covers (which keep so many weeds from sprouting to begin with).
today is a puttering about indoors kind of day with too much rain coming down and i have stacks of projects sitting here to ignore for a bit longer as i try to finish up a big one i've been working on for a long time. it may take me another month or two to finish, but i'm enjoying it enough to keep going. it's very picky, pedantic, detail oriented and i've come a long ways to get this far so i might as well finish it.
[ ye old accounting records project, skip the rest of this if me nattering on about what i'm doing and finding doesn't appeal to you...
]the annoying part though is that i did throw some records away some years ago and never imagined i'd want them, but now i wish i hadn't and so those parts of this project are just stubs that show up in other places where i get to put in notes that yes, it still is an incomplete record of things even if i've gotten a large percentage of everything.
and then there are those times where i come across a transaction and i have no memory of what it was for at all. so there are mysteries in there that even i can't solve... that actually gives me some comfort in an odd way...
and amazingly my OCD quirks aren't upset so perhaps i've trained myself well enough to let things go at times... which is good considering how old i'm getting.- Thread starter
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flowerbug
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tomorrow looks promising. it may be dry enough out and also cool enough in the morning that i can get some hours of gardening done.
it may be dry enough out and also cool enough in the morning that i can get some hours of gardening done. 
ninnymary
Garden Master
My goodness Flowerbug it sounds like you have so many weeds! lol. Is there anything you can do to control them so they don't come back each year with a vengence? Maybe put cardboard down on those paths?
Mary
Mary
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- #917
flowerbug
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the problem is that the pathways in the gardens are mulched with crushed rinsed limestone and they have accumulated enough dirt and other debris that they basically need to all be taken up and the gravel rinsed out. that takes a lot of work which i don't have time for and it is still more efficient for me to go and pick the weeds out of the gravel than it is to clean the gravel.
some of the pathways that were useless i have removed and that has saved me a lot of hours each year. i'd like to do that again sometime but it won't be this year. making smaller gardens into bigger ones is well worth the time if i can get to it. not this year.
it was a nice day outside today and i made progress for a change.
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flowerbug
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Friday was a nice day and i did make more progress, but right when i was getting to breaking some sod down and pulling out the grass roots it started to rain and so i came in. it did not rain hard enough or long enough that i could not have gone back out, but i was tired enough that i said it was enough and called it a day.
it rained enough last night and this morning that i can go out and check out my water flows and puddles.
and a late nesting killdeer decided to put her nest right next to the driveway and i thought it not the best spot because of water flows, but i think she's still out there this morning sitting on her two eggs. we wonder if she'll actually be able to get the young large enough to migrate later in the season or not, but i guess she's very determined.
i'm enjoying my brunch watching the goldfinches raiding the phlox seeds.
it rained enough last night and this morning that i can go out and check out my water flows and puddles.
and a late nesting killdeer decided to put her nest right next to the driveway and i thought it not the best spot because of water flows, but i think she's still out there this morning sitting on her two eggs. we wonder if she'll actually be able to get the young large enough to migrate later in the season or not, but i guess she's very determined.
i'm enjoying my brunch watching the goldfinches raiding the phlox seeds.
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flowerbug
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killdeer has four eggs now in her nest.
i reshaped and dug a drainage trench in the garden i just finished weeding and then i started weeding back further along the edge because i'll need to dig it up and put it back down deeper, so while i was weeding i just kept going until i filled up the weed bucket and i was tired enough to take a break. i think i could finish weeding the rest of the garden in about an hour and a half so that's not too bad. but really i need to get the front part i just finished up so i will get that planted tomorrow and then work on the edge and the back part on Tues... oh, that's right, i gotta mow tomorrow so i will change that around to weeding a little in the morning and then mow and then plant Tues...
we did a walk around the fenced gardens this morning to check out how things were doing. i have baby beans coming along and peas in the pods are also showing up. green pepper about 3/4 size and hot pepper about half size. plenty of weeds showing up to get after in there too, but they can wait for a week or two. all the rest of the disasters need it more first than those few weeds.
the rest of the bean gardens inside the fence look like they are doing ok.
i reshaped and dug a drainage trench in the garden i just finished weeding and then i started weeding back further along the edge because i'll need to dig it up and put it back down deeper, so while i was weeding i just kept going until i filled up the weed bucket and i was tired enough to take a break. i think i could finish weeding the rest of the garden in about an hour and a half so that's not too bad. but really i need to get the front part i just finished up so i will get that planted tomorrow and then work on the edge and the back part on Tues... oh, that's right, i gotta mow tomorrow so i will change that around to weeding a little in the morning and then mow and then plant Tues...
we did a walk around the fenced gardens this morning to check out how things were doing. i have baby beans coming along and peas in the pods are also showing up.
green pepper about 3/4 size and hot pepper about half size. plenty of weeds showing up to get after in there too, but they can wait for a week or two. all the rest of the disasters need it more first than those few weeds.the rest of the bean gardens inside the fence look like they are doing ok.
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flowerbug
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yet another day where no matter what i might plan to do or even say that i should get it done a few moments after i say that things can change.
so i've still not planted the last garden.
massive disaster continuing in the south field. the area that i've been mowing that was full of thistles is still being regularly mowed very close to the ground and there's nothing there that will be able to flower or drop new seeds. but as i was mowing today i looked over into the neighboring areas of the field and there's a heck of a lot more thistles blooming and dropping seeds all over the place. the guys who were farming that field left it a horrible mess and i'm sure if they do anything to it now they'll just be spreading all those seeds around even further. i don't really know what i can do here because of the various laws and i sure don't want to start a huge fight with the neighbors, but geeze it's going to be a mess that has a lot of impact on me (it already has since i've been mowing for the past few seasons - in terms of time, gas money and wear and tear on the mower and me...). also there are plenty of other of these same thistles along the roads and in other fields around here so it's not an isolated issue...
as usual i have a long list of things that need to get done and most of them aren't going to be done any time soon, but at least i have a chance of getting a few done tomorrow morning if everything lines up right.
i need to get the garlic lifted and i need to finish planting the garden i just weeded and have ready to go. if i can get those two things done tomorrow i'll be at least making progress again.
so i've still not planted the last garden.
massive disaster continuing in the south field. the area that i've been mowing that was full of thistles is still being regularly mowed very close to the ground and there's nothing there that will be able to flower or drop new seeds. but as i was mowing today i looked over into the neighboring areas of the field and there's a heck of a lot more thistles blooming and dropping seeds all over the place. the guys who were farming that field left it a horrible mess and i'm sure if they do anything to it now they'll just be spreading all those seeds around even further. i don't really know what i can do here because of the various laws and i sure don't want to start a huge fight with the neighbors, but geeze it's going to be a mess that has a lot of impact on me (it already has since i've been mowing for the past few seasons - in terms of time, gas money and wear and tear on the mower and me...). also there are plenty of other of these same thistles along the roads and in other fields around here so it's not an isolated issue...
as usual i have a long list of things that need to get done and most of them aren't going to be done any time soon, but at least i have a chance of getting a few done tomorrow morning if everything lines up right.
i need to get the garlic lifted and i need to finish planting the garden i just weeded and have ready to go. if i can get those two things done tomorrow i'll be at least making progress again.
