Yard Work, Yay!
Apr. 11th, 2011 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
multipurposegoddessI finally put the iron tree back up. It's got two 10 lb weights at the base, now, which need to be rejiggered a bit as the second one interferes with a bolt, but that will have to wait. Bird bath filled, thistle feeder filled, super supper dome filled, suet log half-filled. It may not rain again before autumn, so it'll probably stay up fine for a while, at least.
Also placed a few stepping stones so I can run out to turn the hose on and off in bare feet without stepping on wet grass (fine in the summer, not in the winter). Because having stepping stones is easier than remembering to wear the slippers or crocs that I have expressly for the purpose of sliding on before dashing outside for a moment. Well, I do have a lot of stepping stones, so why not?
And weeded a bit. I got a flexible plastic bucket/basket like you might fill with ice and beer or soda, filled that twice with grass and whatever was growing in the flowerbeds that weren't meant to be there. Still looks weedy, but I know it's better. Everything that I actually planted out front seems to be doing well, though I can't tell if the echinacea is coming back. Some of the flowers in the wine barrel by the fence appear to have spread to the ground, which is unplanned but great.
Ran the drip irrigation system for the first time in a while - it's been raining enough I haven't needed it. One major leak that needs repairing in the line to the birdbath, a ton of spray at the faucet from the line to the swamp cooler which I don't know what I'm going to do about that. But neither problem is huge.
Walter is loving the longer lead on the aerial run in the front yard. He would like to stay out there all the time, thank you. Wednesday loves gardening. I wish she would stop digging up my sage, I've replanted it 3 or 4 times already, but her help with the weeding is welcome.
I am going through my yogurt very fast since it's become more delicious. I hope this batch wasn't a fluke!
Also placed a few stepping stones so I can run out to turn the hose on and off in bare feet without stepping on wet grass (fine in the summer, not in the winter). Because having stepping stones is easier than remembering to wear the slippers or crocs that I have expressly for the purpose of sliding on before dashing outside for a moment. Well, I do have a lot of stepping stones, so why not?
And weeded a bit. I got a flexible plastic bucket/basket like you might fill with ice and beer or soda, filled that twice with grass and whatever was growing in the flowerbeds that weren't meant to be there. Still looks weedy, but I know it's better. Everything that I actually planted out front seems to be doing well, though I can't tell if the echinacea is coming back. Some of the flowers in the wine barrel by the fence appear to have spread to the ground, which is unplanned but great.
Ran the drip irrigation system for the first time in a while - it's been raining enough I haven't needed it. One major leak that needs repairing in the line to the birdbath, a ton of spray at the faucet from the line to the swamp cooler which I don't know what I'm going to do about that. But neither problem is huge.
Walter is loving the longer lead on the aerial run in the front yard. He would like to stay out there all the time, thank you. Wednesday loves gardening. I wish she would stop digging up my sage, I've replanted it 3 or 4 times already, but her help with the weeding is welcome.
I am going through my yogurt very fast since it's become more delicious. I hope this batch wasn't a fluke!
