Garden ⁽¹⁰⁵⁾

Brian Bilbrey April 13, 2014

This is my belly ...

Would you scratch it for me? I'd trade her in on a working dog, especially one that does house-cleaning. But Lexi is so darned cute. * * * Today, shopping, and more yardwork. I finished dismantling and bagging the junk on the concrete pad. I'll arrange for a "large item" pickup from the trash provider sometime later this week. Very happy to have that done. I also dressed all of the garden beds with manure and leaf compost... and turned over three of them. I'll knock out the rest later this week. Overall, I managed about 12 hours of yardwork,…

Brian Bilbrey April 12, 2014

Spring Chores

Spring cleaning extends to the outside of the house, too. I had a pile of stuff from the dismantling and rebuilding of the front fence last fall. Y'see, by the time the fence had been rebuilt and the stain on the front-facing portions of the fence ... well, ice and rain were falling out of the sky. So I left the pile for Spring. Now, it's the time, so I took that pile, and amended my mulching/composting box. Now it looks like this: I constructed that atop the old, low (10") box I'd previously used for the purpose. Now it…

Brian Bilbrey April 6, 2014

Sprung

At least I think Spring has sprung. Of course, there was frost on the grass and rooftops this morning, and we have two more of those mornings in the forecast. But I did do some significant yardwork yesterday, clearing the winter debris and die-off from the front yard. I also did the early Spring fertilizing on the lawns. Also accomplished: not too damn much. I finished playing Bioshock Infinite, which was fun, even though I saw the ending coming from about a million miles away. Fun game, good story. Nice drive by on Rapture, right near the end, too. In…

Brian Bilbrey March 9, 2014

Time Bandits

They've been, and gone, and an hour of my life has been stolen from me. Worse yet, I had patching duties this morning early, and the vague worry about over-sleeping meant I actually slept very little. Sigh. However, it was seasonably warm here this weekend: mid-50's yesterday, high 40's today, so I wore shorts all weekend, yay! Walking the dog past shrinking piles of snow while wearing shorts made me unreasonably happy. I also made an early start in the garden: I turned over one bed, and planted snow peas. Just in time for possibly more snow, Wednesday night into…

Brian Bilbrey October 6, 2013

Fall II = Summer?

Hmmm. Six plus hours working in the yard yesterday, and nearly broken as a result. Why? It was nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit out. I was slamming the H2O and got through it. The garden beds are cleared, turned and mulched with leaves harvested from the front yard: After that was done, I mowed both front and back. Today I got the shopping done, then roasted coffee and cut my hair, and wrapped the day's chores by washing the car. That'll bring rain. I should probably wash the car more often if it does, since we've had only about 3/4" or…