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Last coupla' days hasn't been that bad, Penny. Gets a bit windy at times though.

We're supposed to stay around the mid twenties today and tomorrow.

It seems to be an off/on thing.

I'm still scrubbing around in one area, trying to get it cleaned up. Hope I'll have some new pictures soon.

Again . . . check out my journal at Wild City for any pictures I might have missed here.

http://wildcity.proboards14.com/ind...display&thread=1180894730&page=2

Last night I just tidied up around a tree. I was looking around and feeling blue 'cause a lot of stuff just isn't coming along nicely. Guess I've got to remember that everything doesn't grow on our lot.

Then again, it could surprise me - I could go out there and find something coming up that I'd given up on.

So part of Manitoba is under a tornado watch.

And here right now? Brrrrooooo! It's chilly!

We went out for supper and couldn't sit on the restaurant's patio - too windy.

We got some bleeding heart tonight:



I'm hoping to get some more of it and put it all along that little patch I've made there. The cyclamen is at the end. I know that won't last long.

I clipped a piece of euynomous from a bush I passed tonight:



All pray to the goddess of euynomous.

I don't really know what this blue flower is:

A regular visitor to our lot . . .



This character's always around collecting worms and seeds. Sometimes its mate shows up too, but this time he was alone.

I cleaned around this tree again - finally found a place for the big seagull Symon found:

Our tomatoes seem to be growing well - I've already pinched a few suckers:

That'll be nice.

Just to have one or two things work out would be nice . . . gardening is so frustrating.

Work, work, work.

Well, here I am takin' it easy again - still hot here in T. O., expecting a rainstorm. Then some cooling - whew!

I'm looking forward to some 22 to 24 celsius which is supposed to start tomorrow - then I can make some progress with the section of land I'm working on.

I was sick last night - what a spell that was. That deep in the tummy can't-get-off-the-can kinda' sick. Waves of clammy hotness washed through me and Jeff had get a fan on me so I could breathe.

He's a good nurse, that one - all that time with his mother up to his late thirties.

Once the sheets were changed and I got all washed down I was able to sleep.

Needless to say I didn't venture far from the back door today.

If the rain doesn't come, I will go out to the yard and try to finish digging out the arc I was making around my mulching logs. Might experiment with something . . .

I'm much better, thanks.

No, we didn't get that rain either.

But it is nice being a bit cooler.

I've got this arced area with the goldenrod on the outside cleaned out all around:





It got a layer of cedar wood mulch tonite - it worked out well. I really like the effect - pictures tomorrow.

This corner holds a sumach seedling - it's been growing for a couple of years - I just leave it there. Gets bigger each time. There's some cuttings I took from a neighbour's slope last week - don't know how that's going to do:

Before:



After:



It got some topsoil and some of my leaf mulch. And tonite it got a little more of a lift - Pat thinned more of her goutwort and in it went.

Pictures tomorrow.

My balloon plant doesn't seem to be giving 'balloon plant' leaves - hmmmm . . . possible those are just 'weeds'. So I pulled them out and inspected - looks like the root is all rotted.

So I guess that's the end of the balloon plant - I've had it for at least 3 years.



I put the 'weeds' back in. If it looks crummy, I'll put something else in there.

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Here's the bleeding heart - not bleeding yet, but it's alive . . .



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Here's the layer of cedar wood mulch I put on . . .



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Day lilies are out . . .



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And this one gave a few more blooms . . .



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Here's the little yellow flowers that bloom on the wild plantain . . .



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I did a little more yesterday - pictures later.

We've got a cool one for Canada Day by the looks of it so far . . . cloudy too.

Yesterday, we got a couple of very short showers. Piddle, piddle and it was over.

Jeff took some more pictures of some progress made the past coupla' days:



Doesn't look like much yet - it some of that variegated stuff that Pat brings over - I thought I'd put some on the slope and see if it takes off.

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I took my spike plant out of there - it was all brown on the tips. I put some of that wild fleabane in, flanked by a couple of the artificials - then replaced them with more gout wort.

That strip, which one of the tenants have dubbed the 'step garden', is coming on nicely.

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I bought seven of these - a buck a piece. They were labelled 'snaps'. I wasn't really sure at first - they didn't look like snapdragons. Somebody has since told me they are a species of snaps.

Anyway - if it looks good, do it! So I did!

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I dug up this corner today - it was drizzling rain, but a good time to work at it - nice and cool.

It's got some 'snaps' in it, some old wispy plants from last year and m ore gout wort.

I did the same thing as with 'Fed Ex' corner. Named for the time the Fed Ex truck ran over it - I dug out the clay soil, dumped it on the mulching square, then lined it with leaf mulch.

That's so the clay can't rise to the top again. Then spread some topsoil and planted.

All pray to the Goddess of Snaps.

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Some of the lilies are starting to shrivel, but they still look good waving away in the breeze.

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Another big piece of fleabane taken from that patch I just dug out - I'm putting wild stuff like that at the foot of the birch. The birch is on the lam anyway (birch bole).

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Fed Ex Corner . . . I planted well into the back of it - if the truck runs over it, it will catch the rocks at the edge - and only that - I hope.

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Awwwwwwwww!

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And I'm outta' here!

Thank you, Penny.

Some of my stuff isn't doing well this year, yet on the same hand, some stuff is doing better than before - environmental change, perhaps.

It's so frustrating.

Tonite, Symon, one of our older tenants - in his late seventies. He's a dear old man, always bringing home tidbits for the garden - little ornaments, big ornaments, discarded plants - tonite it was some fabric pansies.

He's watching me tending to plants on the table garden - sees my tomato plants - oh, he says - you're not watering them enough.

Grrrrrrrrrr! We water them constantly . . . but like a lotta' people here, he just assumes that Jeff and I couldn't possibly have any wherewithal - after all, we're just a superintendent and his wife, y'know - it's not as if we're educated or anything - certainly, we don't have any life experience.

Yes - grrrrr!

So I sarcastically say (oughta' be ashamed of meself), Symon you finally figured it out - all this time, Jeff and I have had the hose out just about every night, trying to make you people believe that we're watering plants and grass.

Actually, Symon, what we've been doing is hosing down the walks and the driveways - we don't water the plants at all.

Oh, but . . . but . . . but . . . I didn't say you weren't watering the plants!

Oh, I see - so saying 'you're not watering them enough' isn't saying I don't water the plants.

OK, already - I gotta' practice equanimity with people - they're only human. Gotta' be more patient.

And I gotta' admit - he was right about something - it's just possible the where I had them is getting too much sun - it really blasts down there in the m morning.

So I had Jeff move them over to the other side of the table.

Grrrrrrr!

Skitter - somebody told her she oughta' go to hollywood and get a screening, so here she is:



I can get a screening right here in my own home!

Know what? There's a lotta' stuff I haven't put on here yet - click into this page to see this month's journal:

http://wildcity.proboards14.com/ind...display&thread=1180894730&page=3

That's page 3 - you might find stuff you haven't seen on page 2 as well.

See y'all tomorrow, eh?

OK, that's copasetic.

Now, I've got a big job today - it's all in one place, at least - right in the point of the north lot - I call it Washington Point 'cause I had some Martha's in there a couple of summers ago.

Anyway, WAshington filled in a lot - mostly saplings - ha ha!

I'm cleaning it out, saving what growth there is - I think I'm going to get a pail for the soil I'm digging out, and fill some little pots with the same soil - that way, I can stick what I'm going to try to save in those - little bits.

Then I'll do the same - line it with leaf mulch, cover it with topsoil, and put plants back in.

What doesn't make it? Well there's always rocks, eh?

My only real problem with this job is the sun and heat. Might have to wait till early evening.

All the bugs seem to hang out there - the no-see-ums and there's a lotta' ants.

A lot of rain yesterday - and some coming today. That'll help green up that ground, we hope.

I'm just going to work in the shady parts this morning - until the rain comes.

Know what?

I haven't started the July journal yet - go there for more of my journal and pictures, please.