Friday, June 06, 2008
Another One Bites The Dust!
Around 1:30 this afternoon I heard a loud thud. Thinking that the wind might have blown the umbrella and table over on the deck I went out to check.
Sure enough the umbrella was on it’s side and the table tipped half way over. I righted everything and went back inside.
About a half hour ago I went down to get the mail and newspaper and found this in the front yard. The piece that had broken off reached almost to the front ditch. As you can see a good part of it is still standing. I’ll have to check with my neighbor John to see if he wants it and will take it away.
It certainly looks like I’m going to have to have the tree trimmer back in to take two more clumps out before something serious happens.
By the way the wild bird seed is in the coffee cans and I cleared away most of the weeds in the barrels as I had promised despite the almost 90 degrees. There was a brisk wind so that helped keep the working bearable. (That of course is what also blew down that tree. )
People And Plants!
Let me start by apologizing to Mrs Dof for giving her an early Birthday. It seems my wishes were due on the tenth of June instead. Goodness knows a person needs every day of life they can get when they are ‘39’ or older.
Next to grandson Dakota.....
.....a big Happy ‘Brithday’ ( a family joke). I know this is the right day! He is now a freshman in high school! Darn it I can’t stop these guys from getting older!
On to plants!
Brandy and I took our morning walk around the yard and found the following sights of interest. I seem to be waking up at 6:30 am every morning and have the urge for a cup of coffee, a visit to the throne, and a look /see out in the gardens around the dome.
The Columbine is blooming in two different spots.
I also found the name of the vine with the little pink flowers at McDaniel’s farm market the other day.
This is called Cotoneaster and it is a pretty persistent plant. Moving it did nothing to slow down it’s growth.
The delight of my morning walk was the new bloom out on the berm.
It started out at 72 degrees at 6:45 this morning and by 7:45 it had all ready climbed to 74. We can expect close to 90 so I want to get my breakfast over with and go out and clean the weeds out of the barrels. Jay has dialysis this morning so depending on how he feels the the barrels will be refilled with a mixture of peat moss, vermiculite, and compost on top the wood chips all ready in them. Otherwise Saturday morning we will finish that off and get the vegetable plants in.
Next for me today is to put the wild bird seed I picked up yesterday into coffee cans for storage and get the suet cakes into the freezer for ease in handling when I fill the suet hangers for the birds.
Oh speaking of freezers I found a place for rhubarb yesterday while I was out getting the truck fixed ( new pins for the driver’s side door, running boards fixed and the one reattached, and couple of other things corrected). I cut up and froze seven pounds of rhubarb last night so bring on them strawberries, blueberries, and apples because I’m ready to can!!
Enough lolly-gagging around my friend because the grass is also getting deeper in the yard and I got a new battery in the lawn tractor Yes!!!!