stubbed toes and mud pies

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i was able to get outside today for a while. weeded, picked gravel out of the dirt, buried some bean pods and bones from a roasted chicken for a while and then went and tried to find the poison ivy in some bushes - could not find it at all.

i actually sweated a little. <horror>

 

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Oroville almost full again (10ft to go but that is primarily for flood control).

Lake Oroville SRA Live Stream

California State Parks

www.parks.ca.gov

 

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sweated some more today. i'm going to wilt this summer... 77F already... after rains today and tonight cooling off to 51F for tomorrow and not too bad for this week.

also got to see first bumblebee. i'm sure they've been out before it's just that i've not been out that much yet meself...

 

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California’s wildlife bridge became a target for the right. Now it’s eyeing the finish line

Unhindered by critics who called the $114m project ‘a bridge to nowhere’, a gigantic bridge allowing animals to cross a busy freeway is close to completion

www.theguardian.com

it may be a lot of money but i'm sure a lot more has been spent for less... at least this does something for wildlife and diversity and it looks better than the highway going underneath it...

 

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two days of good enough weather to get outside as much as my body can take. plenty of projects to choose from and things to get ready for the season.

i think today i'll get the north garden scraped and weeded as much as i can get done. i have the garlic in there to work around which will slow things down for part of it but i don't have to do everything in one day.

the edges are in pretty good shape except for the north edge along the grass which constantly gets invaded and weedy, but the two thyme ground covers are doing their jobs in smothering there and i hope it will keep spreading... where they grow a lot of weeds don't but i still do have to weed them here or there. the taller thyme grows faster but i'd like the lower growing thyme to take over more of the space so i need to trim some of the taller back a few times a season to let the lower growing thyme spread more.

the east edge is more work than i want it to be with some Creeping Jenny that i'm trying to replace with the lower growing thyme. the CJ does help keep other weeds from having it easy in that space but it isn't working as well as the thyme does so i'm going to keep trimming and removing it and encouraging the thyme to completely take over instead. weeding CJ out of the thyme is not easy as i'd hoped but eventually it will get done.

 

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"Jenny"

not Charlie, not Bindweed.

Yellow flowers in her hair, right?

 

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"Jenny"

not Charlie, not Bindweed.

Yellow flowers in her hair, right?

yes. i planted it in the lowest growing area where water can collect at times. unfortunately it gets some bugs in it (small grayish catepillars) and it spreads too much into the upwards areas where the creeping thyme is at, plus it is harder to weed and hides weeds too much.