Garden ⁽¹⁰⁵⁾

Brian Bilbrey May 28, 2020

28 May 2020

Well, the beginning was a good long time ago. And one thing I can always take away from the Drake Equation is that a primary reason that we're alone is because civilizations just don't last long enough to get past the deeply stupid stage that follows the enlightenment. Whether we do it to ourselves, or Giant Asteroid '20 does the job for us, the bell is tolling. I know, I'm a cheery sort of bloke, eh? You look at the news. I'll go back to the small shit that I have control over. Like ... The garden is alive. Almost…

Brian Bilbrey May 17, 2020

17 May 2020

So, since we last were here together, we had several more overnight freezes. Sadly, at least one of them was a surprise. So one night I didn't tarp the garden beds, and everything died. Yup, all of it. So I started over. Rototilled again, raked it all out flat again, bought new plants again, and got ready to put them in the ground, again: We're not due for anything below 48F in the next ten days, so I expect that we're actually done with overnight frosts. (Famous last words). But the plants look good, and since I did that work…

Brian Bilbrey April 13, 2020

April 13, 2020

We're continuing on the bored, stir-crazy, and physically healthy trend here. We hope that all is well with you and yours. Aside from working from home, and some indoor chores, most of my "spare" time has been given over to further yard work. During the week, I took half a day off. The first hour of that was conveying the dog to her second round of annual shots at the veterinary clinic. The rest involved picking up some veggies and a tray of flowers, then getting the veggies into the raised beds. I started by removing last year's landscape fabric…

Brian Bilbrey April 5, 2020

5 April 2020

Turns out that the seasons roll by regardless of stay at home orders... Late last fall, during the cleanup, it was clear that the spruce that adorned the left side of the front yard was just about done. By February this year, there was no green left to it. This weekend: last rites were administered. Using the pole saw and the small electric chainsaw, I took the tree and both small shrubberies out, along with doing a fair bit of other spring front yard cleanup. Today, my big hope was that the odd angle of lean was indicative of a…

Brian Bilbrey November 3, 2019

3 November 2019

I was four paragraphs into the first pass on this post when I managed to hit a stupid combination of keys on the Apple keyboard and moved backwards three links. Whoops, I thought, and went looking for the auto-saved draft. Um, not there? Sigh. Okay, take two - I wonder how much this iteration is going to vary from the last? Fall is finally, properly, here. Six weeks in, and we finally got two consecutive nights below freezing. We're due for another frost tonight before it warms up just a shade. Also, for the first time, the snow icon made…