crunch…

06 Tuesday Oct 2020

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spent a lovely afternoon in the garden before the rain…

pulled more leaves out of the pond… more are coming down into it every day…

I read and listened to the birds as they crunched through the leaves looking for bugs and seeds… considering how small they are, they made a lot of noise…

flocks of white-throated, song, and house sparrows, as well as pine siskins landed in the grass and around the pond where they would carefully jump from rock to rock to get a drink…

then off they went…

after…

05 Monday Oct 2020

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spent an hour in the garage sorting and organizing… I laughed because I always think about the before picture after I’ve done the work, lol…

also was in the garden for a couple of hours watching the goldfish and birds move about…

I filled feeders and put them in different spots…

it is always interesting to see how long it takes the birds and squirrels to find them again, lol…

fishnet…

04 Sunday Oct 2020

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went outside to see if I could get the waterfall going… it stopped for some reason early in the week so I had gone out and unplugged it… I wasn’t looking forward to the prospect…

I took a ton of leaves out of the pond and dug around the pump with my hands to clear out some of the muck… the water was cold…

got everything working, moved the milkweed, and emptied some of the pots which held dead plants… I left the fishnet in the water hoping the fish will get used to it so when we go to catch them they will be more cooperative, lol…

then I spent time cleaning out the morning glories, adding plants to a pot by the hot tub and rearranging furniture around the lower deck…

it looks lovely and will be a great place for any garden visits that might happen on nice days;-)…

by the time I was finished, I was very happy and pleased with all that had been accomplished…

deciduous…

28 Monday Sep 2020

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it was dull, cool and windy yesterday with a few sprinkles of rain…

I made soup… seemed like a good thing to do on what sure felt like a fall day…

as I went up and down working on it I took some photos of the garden…

hard to tell from these pictures that I don’t have any deciduous trees in my yard, lol…

cleaning up the leaves with the lawnmower isn’t that big a problem, but getting them out of the pond takes quite a while;-(…

looks like I won’t be working on that until Thursday when the weather might be a bit better…

eavestrough…

25 Friday Sep 2020

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dragged the ladder onto the deck, hoping I could reach the eavestrough to clean it out…

had my pail ready and my gloves on, but the height was more than I could manage… was not prepared to take that last step…

moved the ladder over to the garage, set it up and it worked perfectly… was able to clean about four feet of the eavestrough… clearly it needs to be cleaned out more than once every eight years, lol…

will need helpers to clean the rest of it, but it already looks better after I cut down some of the Virginia creeper…

wet-vac…

16 Wednesday Sep 2020

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my grandson came by to get the fish tank ready for the goldfish to come into their condo…

the pump had stopped working in the spring and we hadn’t dealt with it over the summer… he ran it over to the fish store and they discovered the problem and it is fine now…

the tank had lots of dirty water in it and we tried various disgusting methods to empty it… after a number of ideas failed, we brought in the wet-vac and it worked great…

it is now empty and all of the bits and pieces have been scrubbed and are waiting to go back in… next week he will bring some new purple gravel and we will get it set up…

likely around Thanksgiving we will bring the fish in;-)…

skewer…

14 Monday Sep 2020

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spent a good portion of the afternoon in the garden… I was particularly watching the birds as I thought I’d spotted a rose-breasted grosbeak at the feeder from inside the house…

it was a lovely time… lots of bird and fish watching…

one of the things I’ve noticed is that the waterfall sounds different depending on how clear the line is…

when there is no debris in it it is quiet…

when there is algae and the odd stick in it, the sound is much louder…

I usually have a large skewer behind it that I use to clean the waterfall mechanism, but it appears to be gone… wondering if a crow came by and took it, lol… today I used a twig that had come down from the elm tree next door…

Instagram…

08 Tuesday Sep 2020

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recently it was pointed out to me that I don’t show much of my garden on Instagram…

that is because I usually focus on close ups of the flowers in the garden, lol…

when I joined Instagram my focus was photos of flowers and I have continued to concentrate on that theme over the years with the odd picture of critters and chocolate included…

this is rather funny as I spend most of my days in this renewing space…

a few days ago I took a number of photos in the garden once all the cushions were out and then put them up in my Stories…

it was a fun process and I had to relearn how to do a few things;-)…

now there are Highlights of the garden… of course the funny thing is that the garden is not at its best as we are moving into Fall… maybe next year I can start earlier in the season so others can see this sanctuary throughout the entire summer…

I love my garden and wonder how this crazy summer would have been without it…