I’ve been gardening like crazy. We’ll actually be here this summer and vegetables are always welcome.
But so are flowers.
Two small wooden flower bins have been even with the top step of our 3-steps down to the yard back slider.
For some reason, no handrails are on these steps.
When we moved in and I saw that, I recognized a potential falling hazard, so we placed these planter boxes level with the top step.
They’ve disinegrated after 12 years, and off Facebook marketplace, I bought two 1/2 wine barrels.
($25 each. This is wine country with plenty of barrels.
(Similar barrels were $60 each at Home Depot. Score!)
They’re deep enough we didn’t have to put them up on blocks to be level with the top step.
Yesterday, I planted them with the former large succulents that have grown there for years, surrounded with carrot seeds (why not get more food?) and four petunias each for color.
Surprisingly easy.
Now I just have to transplant these massive succulents into the front yard where anything goes.
I have been out gardening as well. Left seventeen with grandpa. She got him safely to breakfast and back to his chair, settled with a newspaper he will look at for an hour or so. Never turning a page. Maybe remembering his letter to the editor days or years on city council.
All the gardening! Lovely! Great exercise. I did plant catnip this week 🙂
Yesterday was busy from early to late. A vet appt. at 8:30 required an early admin of the calming med and getting Miss B in the carrier. She did not behave for the vet and had to be sedated for tests. I await results. She seemed paralyzed for hours, unable to use her back legs when we got her home. Art stayed with her while I attended Bible study from 10:30-12:30. Then I had another women’s event to leave for at 5 p.m. and did not get home until 9 p.m. Add to the mix that son had told me the day before that he’d be home for last night. We got to chat late. He was off again this a.m.
Art and I managed to do the couple’s devotion and fasting for a day, starting yesterday at 6 p.m. which is being observed by my church (he has not joined it with me or I’d call it our church).
Today was get rid of the kale day to plant other things. Planted the kale in January and have been eating it since March so it had a good run. Spinach and carrots are also coming along from the January planting.
Art is still a member of our small Methodist Church in our neighborhood where he was so involved with choir and doing financial work. Although he does not know the current pastor there, he gives support to that church. That is why I sometimes have trouble calling the church where I am a member “our church.” I attended my friend’s church last night and have been to so many events there that they sent an email asking if I would like to attend the meeting for prospective members.
Cats are good snake catchers. I knew we had snakes, a variety of them. At least five different kinds, but we usually only saw a few a year, sometimes no rattlers. But these cats seem to have at least one every day. I had thought, after they got rid of the rodents, the snakes would move out into the fields but that appears not to be the case. Maybe they will focus on snakes and leave the birds alone.
Okay, this may sound silly. I really want to go to our church family camp at Tahoe in July, but I simply cannot camp. So need either a camper van or a nearby cabin. I had a lead on one, but they want 350 a night, yikes, I can’t pay that. Owned by friends but they have a contract with an agency so can’t give me a deal.
There are so many young families in church and I want to get to know them. We always go to Sugar Pine Point in Lake Tahoe.
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Another foggy rainy cold day here. Thankful for the moisture but missing the sun!!
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I’ve been gardening like crazy. We’ll actually be here this summer and vegetables are always welcome.
But so are flowers.
Two small wooden flower bins have been even with the top step of our 3-steps down to the yard back slider.
For some reason, no handrails are on these steps.
When we moved in and I saw that, I recognized a potential falling hazard, so we placed these planter boxes level with the top step.
They’ve disinegrated after 12 years, and off Facebook marketplace, I bought two 1/2 wine barrels.
($25 each. This is wine country with plenty of barrels.
(Similar barrels were $60 each at Home Depot. Score!)
They’re deep enough we didn’t have to put them up on blocks to be level with the top step.
Yesterday, I planted them with the former large succulents that have grown there for years, surrounded with carrot seeds (why not get more food?) and four petunias each for color.
Surprisingly easy.
Now I just have to transplant these massive succulents into the front yard where anything goes.
Today?
A writing day.
M
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Mid 80s today, and the rest of the week, really. 🌞 and humid.
Just came from Men’s group, it’s a beautiful day out there.
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I have been out gardening as well. Left seventeen with grandpa. She got him safely to breakfast and back to his chair, settled with a newspaper he will look at for an hour or so. Never turning a page. Maybe remembering his letter to the editor days or years on city council.
mumsee
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All the gardening! Lovely! Great exercise. I did plant catnip this week 🙂
Yesterday was busy from early to late. A vet appt. at 8:30 required an early admin of the calming med and getting Miss B in the carrier. She did not behave for the vet and had to be sedated for tests. I await results. She seemed paralyzed for hours, unable to use her back legs when we got her home. Art stayed with her while I attended Bible study from 10:30-12:30. Then I had another women’s event to leave for at 5 p.m. and did not get home until 9 p.m. Add to the mix that son had told me the day before that he’d be home for last night. We got to chat late. He was off again this a.m.
Art and I managed to do the couple’s devotion and fasting for a day, starting yesterday at 6 p.m. which is being observed by my church (he has not joined it with me or I’d call it our church).
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Currently we have rain and 71°.
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I have not joined our church but still call it our church.
mumsee
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Today was get rid of the kale day to plant other things. Planted the kale in January and have been eating it since March so it had a good run. Spinach and carrots are also coming along from the January planting.
mumsee
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Art is still a member of our small Methodist Church in our neighborhood where he was so involved with choir and doing financial work. Although he does not know the current pastor there, he gives support to that church. That is why I sometimes have trouble calling the church where I am a member “our church.” I attended my friend’s church last night and have been to so many events there that they sent an email asking if I would like to attend the meeting for prospective members.
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Cats are good snake catchers. I knew we had snakes, a variety of them. At least five different kinds, but we usually only saw a few a year, sometimes no rattlers. But these cats seem to have at least one every day. I had thought, after they got rid of the rodents, the snakes would move out into the fields but that appears not to be the case. Maybe they will focus on snakes and leave the birds alone.
mumsee
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Okay, this may sound silly. I really want to go to our church family camp at Tahoe in July, but I simply cannot camp. So need either a camper van or a nearby cabin. I had a lead on one, but they want 350 a night, yikes, I can’t pay that. Owned by friends but they have a contract with an agency so can’t give me a deal.
There are so many young families in church and I want to get to know them. We always go to Sugar Pine Point in Lake Tahoe.
Jo
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