Oof, I’m sore today. Yesterday involved a lot of manual labor. Today, I get to go buy plants! I had an interesting incident yesterday with the fish tank. A couple of months ago, I got a peppermint shrimp to clear out the pest anemones. Having already had a Shrimp Bob, I broke my own rules and named him Goliath, […]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Six bags of dirt and three bags of mulch makes a pathetically small dent in the new bed, but it was actually less pathetic than I thought it would be, so I’m happy. I need at least ten more bags of each to do the border, but the big new section, where the island bed joined […]
Awake. Alert. Sort of. Gotta do a Digger. Then I get to go fool around in the garden for a bit, then I shower, then I scream and pull ticks off me, then I work on Dragonbreath. The squirrels or the deer or something have dismantled the birdfeeder, and apparently one of them ate the nut holding […]
So you’re at the beach, and you spent the evening before strolling along the causeway in the fog, drank some nice wine, did a little dance, made a little love, and you are now sleeping the sleep of the just, marred only by the fact that at some point this morning, your Significant Other got […]
Thank you to everybody who pointed out the Unshelved review of Dragonbreath–that’s awesome! To celebrate, I’m going to the beach. (Well, I was gonna do that anyway, but still…) How sad is it that what I’m really excited about is coming back in a few days and seeing how the garden’s grown?
Finally got out of the garden, and have amused myself doodling.Mask Creatures II Plague Rabbit Doodle My last act in the yard was to move the oakleaf hydrangea. It’s been sitting outside in a pot since I picked it up on a whim from a farmer’s market last fall. I had planned to use it as one […]
Which, by the way, will totally be the name if I ever start a dedicated gardening blog, although I probably won’t since y’all are so patient about the seasonal madness that strikes me. Today, we did about half the work of building a bed. Kevin very patiently lugged lengths of pine logs from the woodpile to the […]
Very much delayed, but I’m finally confident that I will not be doing anymore of the Circus of the Peculiar pieces for a while, so I’ve got the print sets available now–all 3 for $20, plus shipping.Circus of the Peculiar And spring is making it hard to work. I want to be in the garden. […]
Another doodle of a masked critter and brown paper. Mask Creature This one kind of reminds me of the masked heron from Nurk, but less malicious.
For my own reference… Stuff that definitely died: "Jethro Tull" coreopsis*Butterfly blue Scabiosawallflower Stuff that is probably dead but not ready to put a stake in yet:that one purple spikey salviacreeping phlox Stuff that came back:Texas sage (every variety!)*bee balm (seems to be spreading…)*speedwellcabbage-leaf coneflower*purple-headed sneezeweed*black-eyed susans*purple coneflower in that one spot by the birdbath*dianthus, […]