Well, step #1 toward our solar installation is done. The tree on the east side of the house is down. I don’t take cutting down a tree lightly, but this was a junky tree – that side of the house is constantly littered with small branches. Plus, it’s a Norway maple, so it’s been sucking […]

The garden’s coming along very nicely – it filled in quite a bit while I was gone. Of course the bad of being away for a week is that my peas went over while I was gone, so I didn’t really get to use those quite as well as I would have liked to. So

The garden is coming along nicely. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this on the blog, but our woodchuck problem is gone for the moment. Our chuck sadly did not make it when attempting to cross the main road nearby, and so far, no one seems to have moved in his territory. So we have a

We have peas! In woodchuck news, we left the house last Saturday, and turned onto the main road we’re just two houses in from, and there was a very dead woodchuck in the middle of the road. It had the right coloring to be ours, and we haven’t seen hide nor hair of any sort

Yesterday was a long day. I did two separate sessions of planting to get everything out. (It was sunny, and really warm, so I went as long as I could in the morning, and then went back out for evening.) But everything is in the ground, and I’ve done as much woodchuck prevention as I

And so it begins… This is the front bed, continuing the red, yellow and blue theme. This was from earlier in the week, with all of the plants we bought last weekend. I also put a small divot in the mound of mulch, and made this bed look much better.

While we were out and about yesterday, we stopped at the nursery where BF had picked up the yellow dahlia that did so well in our front bed last year. We got another one (as well as a red dahlia), as well as some other yellow, red and blues for that bed. (And some marigolds

The stump has been ground, and the city even came through and filled in the hole, and seeded it with grass. They did not seed in the area around the new tree that they had to dig out to plant it, which they did not completely mulch over, so their technique is a little inconsistent,

The other garden task I was behind on was planting up the seedlings. I had bought another grow light last year, after two wasn’t enough for what I planted last winter. I’d tried to set it up when I first planted seedlings, but the zip ties I needed were no where to be found. Those

One of the very irritating things about Covid (I’m choosing to be irritated) is that I had plans for those two lost weekends. Yard work plans had factored in heavily. There’s a large pile of mulch under a tarp right now we had delivered two days before I developed symptoms, that I feel like is