Well, actually….I hurt like hell, but I’m delighted to have accomplished so very much today!
\nI started out early this morning trimming and pulling spent plants from the gardens leading to our front door. There’s a lot of work to do there to put the gardens to bed for the winter, and it was so nice today that I just kept working my way down the walk. Dear Husband came out about an hour later and started blowing the leaves into piles. I took a break and went back to it, and then we both stopped to have a sandwich.
\nAfter lunch, my stepson joined me in the gardens. We cut down the peonies and purple coneflower in the driveway gardens, and pulled the metal plant supports. He raked up the spent plants while I finished cutting down daylilies.
\nOne of the big projects for today was to reorganize the garage for better storage, and cleaning the garage floor before we close up for winter. My stepson has recently purchased a motorcycle, and we’ve had to figure out how to squeeze everything in. I have eight pots of plants that I winter over in the unheated garage, set on a stack of styrofoam insullation. We reorganized garden equipment storage, and the recycling bins. Some things were thrown out, while others went down into the basement.
\nOn paper it doesn’t sound like a lot, but it was six hours of constant work, and it clears the way for us to settle in for the winter. I’m just SO pleased that we got so much done. I still have a short list of things to do, but with Frankie’s help on the herb garden, and what we accomplished today, I can go into the holidays knowing that the grounds look tidy.
\nI need to have Dear Husband pick up a couple of bales of straw for me. I want to cover the ferns and daylilies. I need a couple of bags of compost. We covered peonies with dirt today. I’d like to top that off with compost to give them some organic food next spring.
\nSo, this has been another of those “A day in the life of….” posts, but I can tell you that I FEEL GREAT!!! YEA! What a nice way to start November!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, actually….I hurt like hell, but I’m delighted to have accomplished so very much today! I started out early this morning trimming and pulling spent plants from the gardens leading to our front door. There’s a lot of work to … Continue reading