“One of the 2 barn cats showed her who was boss day 1 so she gives that cat a wide berth - pretty funny watching them sidling around each other.”
That is SO funny! My male cat, Boyd, REFUSES to give up entry and exit from the kitchen door. I’ve raised a LOT of puppies on that porch, and it’s same-old-same-old. He and Arikara have been doing that same ‘slide by’ all week, LOL!
Eva Grace - who is more practical and less full of EGO than Boyd - will go in and out the back patio door to avoid the puppy. ;)
Up at sunrise 5:47 and out in the garden by 7:15! There is so much peace and satisfaction to be in the garden that early watching the world wake up, the bees coming to anything that’s flowering, and the hummingbirds are starting to appear at the feeders in numbers.
This morning I had one goal and that was to weed my very last raised bed. I dreaded that job because it looked just awful, but to my surprise it went like a breeze and I had it done in no time! I was so inspired, plus I had gotten another Butcher Box shipment for the month of June (a gift, can’t afford it on my own) that I was able to cut up the box and use it underneath wood chips on the last part of the walkway between the raised beds that needed to be covered. BB ships in very heavy cardboard instead of Styrofoam.
I hauled three loads of five five-gallon buckets of wood chips and on the last load, I shoveled in another three buckets worth between the five buckets that were already filled. That walkway is now totally covered with wood chips and the garden looks so good.
Before I went out, I had half a cup of hot coffee - the half I didn’t drink plus another mugs worth in the coffee pot are now a refreshing iced coffee that is “hitting the spot”! Once I cool off (going to be 90 today & it’s already hot in the sun), I am going to see if I can get my herb bed expansion together. I think I’m going “big” with a 4 x 8. Filling it is going to be the ‘pain’ because the tractor has a broken hydraulic line, meaning I will have to haul dirt from the back pile in those 5-gallon buckets. I may try offering to take the hose & have a replacement made in exchange for a couple of loads of dirt ... fingers crossed this plan will work.