A Real Time Reminder
It’s garden tour day!
Here’s an article about the tour by our friend Debbie Teashon of Rainyside.com.
Now back to our chronological catching up.
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
I began the day still shaken from yesterday’s watering woes. The sight of our volunteer garden at the post office cheered me up. Then we were off to our north end jobs, with a couple of small jobs on the way.
The Red Barn and Diane’s Garden
Golden Sands Assisted Living
At Golden Sands, regular watering with the sprinkler system has the courtyard garden looking wonderfully lush.
Marilyn’s Garden
Next, we went all the way up to lower Surfside to do some weeding at Marilyn’s garden.
Klipsan Beach Cottages
After Marilyn’s we drove south again to our very favourite job, Klipsan Beach Cottages.
Andersen’s RV Park
We had been weeding and deadheading at Andersen’s for about an hour when owner Lorna came outside and told us the big news: Barring any unexpected last minute glitch, the deal was about to close on selling the park. I turned in our restroom key (and said we’d get it back next week if something went wrong at the last minute). I might as well tell you now that the deal did close for sure a few days later, so our walk around the garden saying goodbye was really the last time. I have always told Lorna that when she sells, we are leaving with her as it is a good time to further accomplish our goal of cutting back a bit on work. She says the new owners, a young couple from California, intend to do the gardening themselves so it worked out for the best for everyone.
A farewell look at Andersen’s gardens:
My only regret in leaving now is that I planted some of every kind of sweet pea that I had here, and now won’t see all the different colours bloom.
I will miss the fun of seeing a “wagon train” of RVs come in, led by the first driver, who is known as the wagon master.
As we were leaving, Lorna gave us this chair. She is packing to move full time to her Seattle townhouse.
Jo’s garden
Jo and Bob had returned from Montana. She had called to ask me to stop by because they had brought us a present.
(She did not even know I had been whinging on about my watering woes yesterday.)
Port of Ilwaco boatyard
We ended our day watering at the Ilwaco boatyard.
We took some of our bucket water to give the new curbside plants at the port a boost.
So….what shall we do with the extra few hours from not going to Andersen’s? I suppose we could put it toward weeding the Long Beach beach approach garden, or….we just might spend it on our own garden.
We are now down by several jobs, as we quit two small jobs over bad pruning and slow payment, and Todd has the Wiegardt garden, and we gave Casa Pacifica to Sea Star Landscape Maintenance, Cheri is doing her own garden, and Flowering Hedges has been doing Erin’s garden. It has delighted me to be divested of all of these jobs; however, I suppose we need to be careful that we don’t go too far into early retirement and lose our ability to afford to go garden touring.
I hope that the new owners keep up your standards.
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You left Andersen’s looking SO fine. I shall miss it. And Golden Sands? What a difference from past years! I smile as you take stock of your divestitures (is that a word?) and make sure you have enough to take in the Garden Tours 🙂
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