Friday, 13 February 2015
On the way out of Ilwaco, Allan took two photos of our planter at the post office:
Long Beach
I left Allan in charge of the so enjoyable job of chopping down the roses (Rugosa rose, ‘Blanc Double de Coubert’) at the police station.
While he chopped away, I walked a long block north to another project and checked a block’s worth of planters on the way.
The previous owner of Stormin’ Norman’s was known by that nickname long before a certain military leader rose to fame.
My main project was to clip and weed around the pond on the NE corner of Bolstadt and Pacific.
This is the pond that you can view on the heroncam. Which means I was slightly aware of being on camera as I worked along the street side of the water.
Geoff, one of the Pacific Realty staff members, came to see me while I weeded.
I filled the wheelbarrow and two buckets and started piling weeds, waiting for Allan to come with the trailer, which he did, after he had finished the police station job:
Allan brought the lunch box and more buckets. I dived right in to the lunch box and took three ibuprofen, as the climbing up and down on rocks to clip sword ferns was causing me considerable leg pain. Allan joined me to do the most agile part of the pond job: going out to the waterfall area to clip sword ferns.
While he was balancing out there, our friend Charlene walked up and gave us a bag with treats!
I popped into NIVA green for a few minutes, two doors up the block, to get some photos for their Facebook page.
Then back to sweeping and taking after photos.
The pond is a thing of beauty…except for where its underwear shows.
If it were mine, I’d be trying to cover all the places where the liner shows.
Allan had had to park a block north, so we tidied up the planters on the way.
I got Heather to leave her shop to admire the iris. She had invited us to join her and two friends for dinner, and we had accepted.
We had a full load of debris to dump at the city works yard, where we saw two killdeer. Friend Sheila told me they will lay eggs right in the gravel, which is rather worrisome as this is a heavily trafficked lot.
With the debris dumped, we still were not done. A series of clamming days would start on Sunday, so we drove out to the Bolstadt approach to tidy the planters (me) and to cut down ornamental grasses in the long narrow garden (Allan).
Looking east from the end of the beach approach, I felt deeply disheartened at the thought of having to weed it sometime this spring, a job that takes us 7-8 days.
We’ll wait till the garden soil is not so wet and heavy before tackling the long and painful weeding job. Last year, we did not get to it till shockingly late in the spring season.
I recorded the day on Map My Walk:
At the end of the afternoon, we swung by Coulter Park to have a browse of the NW Artist’s Guild show.
Lightship Restaurant
We had but an hour’s turnaround time at home before dinner, during which I managed to compose one of the quickest blog posts ever. We then joined NIVA green’s Heather, with her entertaining and funny Seattle friends David and Allison, at the Lightship in north Long Beach.
We lingered, talking, until only the Columbia Bar (at the other end of the building) still had customers.
Next: we wake up some north end gardens.
I am suffering from crocus envy. Ours are sulking at the moment.
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I hope they come on soon!
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