stubbed toes and mud pies

[Shades-of-Oregon]

@digitS’ You are a handy fellow. Your were a tuff flower picker to deal with and very happy you never experienced any accidents crawling up on the top of glass greenhouses. OMG… Cirque du Soleil pays higher rates for doing similar stunts.

I spotted a Douglas fir seedling on top of the chimney over the top of a clay tile roof. I also spread a two story ladder over the tile Pizza Hut style roof to get to the top of the chimney to hang Xmas lights. But lately I’m not as confident to do that job anymore. So I will wait till summer hoping the heat and no rain will transpose that tiny seedling to compost.

Field pic ..on the chimney up 2 stories about… and nothing to tie to for safety. Maybe I’ll send my grandson up when he shows up …

 

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the damage to the nearby town was a small tornado. they're still working on getting power restored to everyone in that area (and about 15,000 people served by our power company which covers a pretty big area of our state).

 

[flowerbug]

able to get out today and work on a few gardens and then weed several areas, but first i had to pick up some more glass that i didn't notice yesterday.

the garden i have peas and the early beans planted needed some thyme scraped up to get it knocked back to the garden where it started giving me several more square feet for bean planting. i'll dig trenches and bury all that thyme when i plant, right now i don't have time to transplant thyme - it is the taller growing type which needs more care, but it will survive high mowing so that is easy enough to do once or twice a year (use a clean mower to prevent spreading grass and weed seeds into your planting). once scraped up i got the hose turned on to spray a little water - i'm pretty sure it was still damp enough down deeper but it helps in the heavy clay to keep knocking the crusty cracked clods of soil with some water so they don't prevent the bean seeds from coming through ok - once in a while i do lose a plant because the seed gets stuck under the ground, but i usually plant enough that losing one here or there isn't a big problem.

the peas are completely up and looking ok, the beans are just now trying to come up but the cold and lack of sun has slowed them down. they'll probably be ok.

then i went along the south fence edge inside the fence and got that garden weeded and ready for whatever goes in there next. i've had peppers in there for years and they do well with the full sun and narrow garden and i've turned it enough and rearranged the soil so that i'm not too worried about diseases or nutrients being an issue this year that i may plant peppers in there yet another season. as i am weeding that garden i notice a few plants growing in the fence that need to be removed and some of them are far enough outside that i'll have to get them when i go out and around to the back pathway which is also outside the fence to get the weeds and lilies out of the pathway. which happened too. the black plastic which is under the gravel on that back pathway is so abused and ancient that it really should be replaced. heh, like, yes, i do need more projects... newp...

i didn't really plan on doing all that i did but was glad that i could do it because it would be unlikely i'll get back to those spots again any time soon.

tomorrow is mowing and whatever else i can get done.

it is nice enough outside now that i should be taking my ground pillow and working along the edge of the pathway to get the low growing creeping thyme weeded. i'm feeling tired enough that i'm just going to lay here and look at it instead.