Heat is On

 Writing is hard.  Some days words flow from my fingers and others they do not.  With my new work schedule all my routines are strange.  So strange that it is 2:20 in the afternoon, I am writing before I go to sleep, and I feel like only half a day has gone by.  Things have happened though and I am happy to have these happy things to write about:

• Since I have not been able to completely close up the garden yet, I put a few of the plants into larger pots for now, rather than the ground.  They are also still inside the house, albeit the porch, so much closer to the elements.  I'm not sure when I will get to work on the fence again, things are rather busy right now.  Yay!  Some of the plants have more room to grow.  I also remembered to fertilize some of the plants.

Pumpkin.

• The area is under a heat advisory now.  Instead of meeting at a park, my friend, Amy, and I went to the mall to get in some solid stepping.  My step goal was reached, great conversation, and Amy reminded me of some very important SCA things that are coming up.
• With the heat advisory and sleep during the day, the portable AC is now in my room.

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Currently reading: The Backyard Homestead, by Carleen Madigan.

Thanks for reading.  Stay safe.

Morning Sun

 It isn't finished.  After getting up super early this morning and getting outside at around six o'clock I made a bunch of progress on the driveway triangle.  I hadn't been able to work in that area for a while and the good that I did a month or so ago was eclipsed by the amount of grass and weeds that shot up recently.

From the south.

From the east.

From the north.

It seems like a small area, but it really isn't.  With only one bag of mulch left, even after all the weeds are removed, the area won't feel 'done' for a while.  The way things grow, 'done', is really just a temporary state, but still something to strive for.

I didn't get the angles the same.
This is from the southeast-ish.

This is a little north of east.

This is still basically from the north.

The area is starting to look bare.  I'm glad I have plans for it.  Other happy things for today:

• When I first went outside, I noticed the roses by the door.  Something is already chewing at the leaves so I got a spray bottle with water and a little dish soap and sprayed them down, before the sun was high and the heat set in.  Hopefully that will help.  I noticed the red roses getting ready to open.

• Another thing I noticed as I went to work on the front part of the property was that the sun still hadn't cleared the trees at the back of the property.  Last year I was up and out early almost every  morning.  It looks to be a hot summer (still spring and temps in the 90's) so the earlier I can get out, the better.  

Sun peaking through the trees.

• While cleaning up, I noticed that while I was weeding, some of the roses had opened.

The red, and more of the pink were open
later in the morning.

• In the afternoon I took the tiller that we got from my aunt to the shop.  I showed it to a very nice man who looked it over and let me know that he could fix it-IF he could find parts for it.  He also let me know how much it would cost just for parts, before labor, and that he didn't think I'd be happy with the performance.   This is not the answer I was hoping for, it is the one I was expecting.  We had to ask, they don't make them like that anymore.  I'm happy that I tried and now I can move forward. 

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Currently reading: The Burgess Book of Nature Lore, by Thornton W. Burgess.

Stay safe, thank you for being here.