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Planter Progress 4-23-2024

This was the ‘before’ on the 3rd of the trio planters I’ve been weeding and pruning.

Now that the weeds are out and the wisteria/forsythia greenery has been pruned back, my husband will be able to easily mow and I can plant some annuals.

It looks like someone lives here now. Today I’ll try to do at least one more planter in the yard. We built 14 brick planters around the yard, so I still have several to do, but things are beginning to look a bit better now.

The ‘rains’ are supposed to start overnight and continue intermittently – plus the chance of severe weather this weekend – until further notice. It will be a challenge to get outside between storms to continue to get things under better control.

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An Outside Kind of Day

The Herb Society of America-via-Cathy Ruggiero

The Herb Society of America-via-Cathy Ruggiero

We didn’t plan it this way, cause the heat index here this afternoon is 112 degrees F, but, for some reason, my husband and I have both been outside working.

I didn’t know it, but while I was telling you about the next step in our painting-the-propane-tank project, my husband went out to pressure wash the back of the tank! He hasn’t finished, but we’ve been reminding each other that sun stroke is no fun. We’re trying to take LOTS of breaks and drink LOTS of water between sessions.

I guess it was about a month ago that I spent about three days pruning and weeding a trio of brick planters we have on one side of the yard. I had it looking like someone actually lives here and takes care of things. THEN I got busy with the raised bed garden project and now it looks like we might be on a long vacation or might have moved away…

I got one planter on the far side of the garage done, and now I’m almost finished with the first of the trio. My goal for the weekend is to get things under reasonable control again.

I hope that you are having a fun, productive weekend!

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