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October 2018
Showing posts with label October 2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label October 2018. Show all posts

. Thursday, October 18, 2018 .
We worked in the yard!  From sun up to sun down.  We knocked out almost two years of weeds!  It is amazing the difference.  We worked in the cold.  And worked until we were dead dog WI tired.


this man is wicked with a weedeater!  You have to watch him out of the corner of your eye to make sure he doesn't take the good stuff out.

Hosta, black-eyed Susan's, coneflowers, and Naked Ladies ...GONE!

A wild hair...mulch!  We haven't mulched for years.  And we got the muscle out to help.

The Memory Garden all weeded and ready or mulch that we weren't going to put down.


Mark picked up the mums at COSTCO a few weeks ago.  Then we went to the Milford Farmer's MArket and got the kale, gords, and pumpkin.


The Big Bed lives again.

There was a trumpet tree that I have been trimming to make it look like a tree.  Well, Edward Scissor Hands got ahold of it and now it looks like a Q-tip.  Not to worry says Mark, it will grow back just like hair.

You can actually see the Mail Pouch sign now.



We call this The City Park.  You can't see anything in there now.


 AMAZING!!



Should be called this the weed, morning glory, and thistle garden.

Oh, I found a little friend.  Not moving too fast because it was so cold outside.

I would love to know what kind of snake this is.

I just need to cover the beds with straw for the winter.  That's a job for this weekend.

Finally, the goats eating poison ivy!




What Did You Do For Your Fall Break?

. Sunday, October 14, 2018 .
We have been trying our best to get the yard winter ready.  We have neglected it for so long because life just got in the way and there were more pressing issues to deal with.  But I am happy to say on this Fall Break we are working from sunup to sundown...a few days in between and in the raindrops.  It feels so good to be outside messing in the weeds and dirt.  I don't even care how dirty I get or how tired I am.  Well, maybe the pain of not using some of those muscles is a little tough.   And the charlie horses....oh please don't get me started.  Anyway, here are some flowers that I have found.

I didn't even plant this little thing.  It just volunteered.

I know that I should be harvesting seeds but jsut have too much other more pressing things to get accomplished.

One very small ray of sunshine.  This bloom was about as big as a quarter.

I am amazed that we still have forsythia.

Look What I Found While Cleaning Up