Hi All -
I have been very busy with mundane activities lately.
On Wednesday we had a truck full of half topsoil, half compost delivered, and the trucker dumped the load on the street (!) rather than ring the bell and ask me to get my car out of the driveway.
First thing I knew, I heard a *clong*, ran to the window, and saw the massive pile in the street. Naturally, we couldn't leave it there, the street is well-travelled.
So I called my husband to come home, and we spent the day hauling dirt and compost into the three new raised beds we built (two made with pressurized lumber, one with Pennsylvania field stone).
So far I have planted the following bulbs and rhizomes: 100 tulips, 100 iris, 100 anemones, 80 iris, 100 crocus, 4 fritillaries, 8 poppies, 4 peonies, as well as finally getting the plumbago and vinca into ground. One of the new beds is a bulb bed, one is an herb bed, and one is a shade bed. Weeded and fertilized the butterfly bed and the blueberry bed and put landscape cloth on the ground and then covered with compost.
Ordered more peony bulbs. Peonies won't grow south of Birmingham, so I had never seen one in Louisiana, nor here until this past spring, when one of the deputies in the courthouse had a vase full on the counter by a bank of video monitors. Wow, they smelled good! They look like roses but are much easier to grow in this climate. I will need another raised bed, probably.
Spent yesterday cleaning and rearranging the garage so I could park my car in it. Put together new shelves and put everything onto shelves, dragged bags of rock out to give away, dragged bags of dirt in to get out of the driveway, etc., etc. Yippee! It fits! I keep opening the door from the house to the garage and gazing on my handiwork with satisfaction.
My husband said it couldn't be done. I did it all by myself while he was out playing with the boys. I am the one who fits everything into the car when we go on trips, and everything into the fridge when we buy too much at the grocery store.
Today is a good day to mulch. The county gives away piles of free mulch at the dump, and it won't last. We pay them to let us haul our branches and yard waste, and they shred it and give it back to us as mulch.
Not a perfect day, as it's rainy, but it's not too cold.
Later. |
