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Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Good luck! My truck comes next Saturday. Accckkk! So much to do before then and I'm goofing off today with friends!
Maybe, maybe not. :)
Some of the iris I planted last year bloomed last year. But then again, they may not bloom if they're too croweded. You could always leave them until next year just to see what they'll do.
Looks like I've got some baby yew that migrated from theneighbor's yard.
Way cool; I love volunteers. Got the sunflowers, had lunch. BBL
With newly established gardens and dogs, fences can be our friend all right. Depending on what you plant and how many in an area, small woven wire 'cages' are handy. I get some and cut it into lengths and use a pliers to weave into a cage. Later on, when the plants get some height on them, it's easy to slip off and move to the next area.
Takin' a lunch break. Got some tools and a few plants this morning at Home Depot, then came back the back back back back back way...partially intentionally, as I wanted to look for garage sales...but then I got losted.
Got additional lighting devices, which I really needed for the livingroom, so that's good! And a few picture frames so I can make myself more to home at werk. And there were some really nice heavy oak stools that'd be great for playin' guitar or other instruments (no arms to get in the way), so I grabbed those too, just in case someday I have friends over again. They were too cheap to pass up.
Now I'm starting to till the garden...and I'm not sure if this should turn me in favor of rototilling or against it, but there are *snakes* back there. Lots of 'em. I'm not sure what kind they are...they look pretty much like the garter snakes I've seen back east, but with a yellow underbelly and some orange to their backs.
But I've never seen garter snakes posture like these have been doing. Their usual methods of defense are
1. run
2. run and hide
3. run real fast and hide
So I don't know if these are just a different variety, or what they are. But they're freaking me out. I killed a few with the shovel, though likely they're poor harmless little guys. *shudder*
Cisco's no help. He was happy to growl menacingly at the dead one...but the lives ones he got stirred up (near me, I might add) and then ran away whimpering when they started to rear up. Way to go, tough dog...though I'd rather that than that he get bit, even by a garter snake.
I hate snakes. I would set the yard on fire and then when the brush is burned off, import new soil and build my garden. This may actually be why plants don't like me.
Whew, got more boxes packed... took out a bunch of trash, washed pots preperatory to packing them. It's a little hard to believe that a week from now I'll be heading east.
Well, if'n that was our house, we'd just invite the naybers and have church...
sorry... ducking...
Ha!
Well...bein' as I'm Catholic and all and don't have St. Patrick handy to drive the snakes away...it's enough to make me wonder if I wouldn't rather just do container gardening this year...
I really, really, really don't like snakes. My planned day of work has kinda come to a crashing halt.
So, are you ~done~ with school next week? I'm still not sure where you are in the process.
Not exactly. I have to take two more classes because the thesis just wasn't working out - I could have done it over the summer, but I wanted to get an internship and do wedding planning... so the plan is for me to take two classes online probably next spring. For some reason Talon and I thought me doing homework next fall might not be the best plan.
However, I am done with sitting in classes and being a full time student! Now I have to get a real job... for a while.
Well, that's cool and it won't really be that much longer. Glad they'll let you work in out that way.
Yeah, they're being accomodating about letting me switch from one program to the other. It pays to be nice to various people like secretaries...
Anyway it just doesn't matter so much to me any more. I already got what I wanted out of grad school - a couple years of transition time, some good experience, knowledge I didn't have before. That alone makes it worthwhile. Plus of course it's obvious how God's timing worked in all this! Wow, when I look at it... never thought even a year ago that this is what I'd be doing now.
In other news, I'm exhausted.
Two hours of yard/garden work is not fun when you're trying to keep a 6-year-old engaged. Then they did their show. 'Course they do it twice more tomorrow.
I told Luke when we came in I didn't want him talking to me for an hour. I just heard him ask the missus, "How many more minutes?"
"Minutes until what?"
"Until Daddy will talk to me again."
Heh...
Well...I'm just plum discouraged. Two hours of work, and I have barely two square feet partially tilled. There are more rocks back there than there is soil, plus it smells like snakes now even if they appear to have vacated.
At this rate, it'd take me the rest of the day and most of tomorrow to make any headway, and it looks like that'd leave me with mostly sand, if I can even get through the rockier parts.
I could cry. I guess raised beds would work back there, but I'm not sure straight in-the-ground is going to work.
Oh joy. The first aphids of the season.
They are just garter snakes - probably been living under your tarp. :~D
If it makes you feel any better, we have ~no~ venomous snakes here.
Heh. I couldn't get the mower started...
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