Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Carressing my front garden this a.m. as I have nothing else to do.
I washed garden walls in preparations for painting them this p.m., sprayed the abandoned house's japanese maple and agave with mucho water, picked up things and pulled the huge garbage can into the garden for filling. Time to let go of half done things..... Put a box of books out in front of the...
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
OMG, the garden is full of debris and dog poop. I spent the morning on my
day off, today, raking and lifting poop out of the garden and then piling up debris for later gathering this week. The dogs have pretty well messed up the place and I have been gone, so it's looks neglected. Mosinha's pool has been empty this week. I must go fix the hole in it and refill it today. I...
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
The skies have been a pale grey with wispy, blowing clouds for two days.
Tonight, at about 10 p.m. I heard real rain on the roof. Haven't heard that in weeks and I had gotten used to it this summer. Now I hear my windchimes from my son's trip to Korea making their tiny brassy ding, ding, ding.... When the winds are stronger, I can hear the coconut fish knock, knock,...
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Friday, September 26, 2008
The persistence of life. That tree that was struck by lightning and cut
down to about three feet above the ground, still has a fabulously grand and useful root system. So, tiny branches are popping up all over the sides of the trunk. Hope sings eternal, springs eternal? Dunno why my fingers wrote SINGS the first time. Anyway, it is coming screaming back. Great. My front...
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Monday, September 22, 2008
I seem to only step into the garden to save it with water, rake it or walk
through it. I actually made myself sit on my huge garden swing and the dogs jumped up and we all just went back and forth, them jumping on and off, for about sixty minutes last night at about 1 a.m. Lovely.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The lightning struck tree is still here, breaking through the front fence.
The front fencing is broken and needs about 14 wooden slats replaced and two 2x4s. The Texas Rangers are now gone so that I can paint the front wall and make the front garden fresh and pretty again, soon. The pigeons have found the bag of seeds this a.m. as I was late filling feeders for the finches...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Frogs in my garden and I can't get them out...!
Help! I have tried all day off and on and I can't get this darned thing to do anything but stall. I am stuck and shall suffer over it all week.?click here? and do better than I, perchance.
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
My garden and all of Tucson is so green as to be unrecognizable.
We look like Phoenix. Phoenix is always green as they are a water wasting city. We have chosen desert plantings more often than not. Except for the newcomers. However, this sweeter than usual summer of lower than usual temperatures and with the rains and higher humidity, we have flowers blossoming...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Rain dances paying off this week.
It began to rain tonight, about two hours ago and it has not stopped. I am almost in tears over the darned raindrops on the roof. My garden is rejoicing, a windchime is ting tinging in a soft breeze and the thunder which sent the doggies all under my chair, has ended. Three dogs do not fit under one...
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
The landlord brought his debris trailer and wants it filled quickly.
I begged for it to come here, thinking that he would leave it as he leaves so much else for long periods of time. But, no. He may move it tomorrow. Darn!! I spent two hours yesterday, filling it with bamboo. Today two passing young fellows helped me to fill the three huge garbage cans with cactus...
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