There's apparently a long challenging (to me) maths explanation as to why I will not have a pile of mulch blocking my driveway forever here, but I'm starting to wonder.The only way I can tell I made any progress at all is that one corner of the door is uncovered, and there were damp patches under the stuff that got moved.
Sigh.
Fortunately for my sanity, and my back, that's not all I got done today. Our lovely neighbors let me put the cherry tomato plants in their green waste bin, since ours is overflowing thanks to nephew's enthusiastic pruning of some trees. Amazing what you can get a big 13 year old to do if you offer a machete and a ladder. . .
Like Robert Frost's apple farmer, I know what will trouble my yard in spring, though. Volunteers in the making, no matter how much mulch gets shoveled on top of them.
And once all of the vines were cleared away, I could see this lovely thing waiting for discovery.
Of course, clearing things away meant I could see that not only am I not the only one with designs on the apples, but there's a bad infestation of powdery aphids on the tree. Time to get out the oil! Perils of seeing reality clearly.
2 comments:
A 13 year old, a machete, and a ladder. And you both survived?
This is one time when I thank the deer, and probably why they keep hanging around, they are my tomato plant disposal units. I put the plants in a pile outside the garden and they eat everything but the tough stems.
Good luck with your mulch pile. When you're done I've still got a pile of gravel and another pile of soil sitting in my driveway... Just a few hundred halves to go.
Do you really have songs running through your head all the time? I thought I was the only one who can never turn the music off.
Michelle, I actually realized that I may be an outlier when I thought, "Eh," when the boy children were up in the tree, swinging that thing. They have to grow up some time!!
The mulch pile is my nemesis. Your projects will get done, beautifully. Mine. . . we'll see.
And yes, I'm a constant radio. Often with really really bad music! If I'm lucky, I get something lovely and appropriate, but that's not always. Mp3 players only exacerbate this.
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