Yesterday I cleaned up under the deck – mostly pulling weeds and garbage removal – with Margot carefully supervising. She madly loves to supervise humans working, I think, besides chasing flies, it’s her fave thing to do.
Pulled the first pea pod out of the garden for Jeff.
My mint got so sunburned it almost died; I have to find a better place for it out of the direct sun. I watered the cedar hedge at the back of the yard as I promised the landpeer I’d do. She laboured mightily to put them in and the first year she planted them she was coming by every week to water them during the dry of the summer.
Margot has taken to sitting under my car before I fire it up in the morning. I could wish she wouldn’t do that.
Had a lovely time at Mike’s birthday party last night. It was good to see Heather and Margaret and Rozo and Tom U., and Jerome briefly dropped by as well. Paul and Keith and Jeff rounded out the gathering.
The quinoa is getting big. I don’t imagine the corn will actually get tall enough to set ears and ripen, but they are fine looking plants. The rest of the yard is looking very brown, but we don’t water the lawn, and the roots on this lawn are very very deep, so it always greens up nicely after a rain. The pine trees I got from work are still doing fine, but I’m going to have to consider where to plant them. I’m almost inclined to transplant them into a park – but in the meantime all I have to do is keep them alive.
