This is my every-third-week Friday off/Saturday at work combo, and I’m feeling prepared. Some weeks, I just glide through the Friday like it’s an extended nap break before my workday on Saturday. This won’t be one of those weeks. I have a list that contains eleven things. Count ’em. These aren’t weak sauce list items,…
Category: The Yard
Home Grown [Tomatoes, Earwigs, Clicky Bugs]
Among other things like watching the World Cup and eating ice cream out of a gutter (mmm), this weekend included some gardening. I’m super pleased to say that I now have a hydrangea bush by my front steps. Its flowers are lime green. And while I was calculating space for that (and recalculating lots of…
One Blade of Grass at a Time
I have absolutely zero experience with power lawn mowers, and my reel mower is only about 10% effective. I was more or less okay with that percentage until my neighbor mowed my front yard two days after I mowed it. So armed with my total lack of mechanical knowledge and a few words of advice…
Presto, tomato!
Until a few minutes ago, I was wondering what to do tonight. Saturday and Sunday are mostly mapped out, but tonight was still a void of nothingness. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy unplanned time, I just had to think through what to do with the luxury of having no pressing projects or cleaning needs…
Happy ‘Maters, Awkward Hannah
Almost all of my plants are alive a few weeks into the garden project. The only casualty so far was the snapdragon cluster. The tomato plants, basil, and hibiscus tree are all really happy. They looked like this on Saturday: You might notice that these plants are in pots. There are also plants in the…
Snapdragons
I used to get haircuts and new clothes. Now I buy chandeliers and replant the yard. That might backfire when my clothes are 20 years out of date, but it’s working out well for now. The current improvement plans are for my poor yard, which has turned into one of the scragglier yards on the…
Small, but valuable. 