Tuesday, 13 September 2016
Mike’s garden
The Depot Restaurant
The Red Barn
Diane’s garden
The Anchorage Cottages
Jo’s garden
It was time to take down the Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’.
Ilwaco
Allan watered the east end port garden that I had not done yesterday, and we both watered at the boatyard.

The Turmoil captain asked to pick some rosemary to cook with his chicken dinner. Very nice, and the rosemary was close by.
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
I had received a text from Melissa saying that THE Oysterville garden’s owner wanted me to know the asters were all in bloom. When could we go, I wondered…and then realized it should be today, our north end day. That visit will get its own post (next). Meanwhile, here is our short work day.
Long Beach
While I had an hour long dentist appointment, Allan worked in the Veterans Field gardens.
Meanwhile, at the dentist…
I joined Allan in Long Beach, where we pulled Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ from the south parking lot “berm”.
Klipsan Beach Cottages
We drove seven miles north to finish the workday at Klipsan Beach Cottages.
Today had been our client Marilyn’s memorial mass…right during the time my dental appointment (not an easy appointment to change) had been supposed to run through. As it turned out, the appointment took a half an hour less time than allotted. Because we were in our work clothes, we were not presentable to alter our schedule and show up a bit late to the service. Our friend J9 went and so did Mary C. (owner and manager at KBC). Mary gave me the programme to keep. I do feel reminded of Marilyn daily because our new cat, Skooter, was her loving feline companion.
We are maintaining Marilyn’s garden every other week now till the sale of her home closes, and this was not the week to go there. We ended our workday early and headed another seven miles northeast to Oysterville, Washington, to tour the splendid garden which will be in tomorrow’s post.
1998 (age 74):
Sept 14 (Monday): Cooked first applesauce. It always seems like my busiest day is Monday. I went out about noon to do some hand watering but ended up in the garage. I brought 4 or 5 boxes of various sizes of pots from the shed and sorted all the pots by size. Then I started rooting through the stuff along the east side. I threw out lots of containers such as cottage cheese tubs etc. Now I can reach the boxes left over from my garage sale so I can sort thru them soon.
Mrs Tootlepedal has been pulling a lot of crocosmia lately too. That was a big spider.
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