25 August, part two: four little jobs

Tuesday, 25 August, 2020

Long Beach welcome sign

For a head start on Long Beach, we deadheaded and weeded the welcome sign because it is on the way to other jobs.

Rudbeckia

Bidens

The lights that shine up onto the sign are blocked by foliage. It would be better if the sign had lights that shone down.

The deer are browsing one end of the blue geraniums on the back of the sign.

The Red Barn

Bentley, the dog of Amy, who manages the barn, made me laugh and laugh. I gave him half a biscuit because he has such a narrow nose and mouth. He looked at me like, What’s up with this half a biscuit, lady? until I took the half away and gave him a whole one. Then he trotted off to bury it, as is his wont. Amy says he digs biscuits up and moves them around.

Half is not enough.

That’s more like it.

That met with approval.

Oh, and we watered and weeded and deadheaded.

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Diane’s garden

Misty got her biscuit.

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the Roadside garden

the septic vault garden

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Only Allan can climb up on the vault to weed the center.

Boreas Inn

I don’t have enough total control over this garden. I like total control. And if I had total control, the garden would not have lupines or lady’s mantle in the west lawn beds, because when they get cut back, the garden looks blah from mid summer on. I would put the lupines off in a side bed all their own.

I can’t have everything my way in all the gardens, but I wish I could.

And now, with the little jobs done, it was time to dive into the Long Beach job, which will be tomorrow’s post.
I am back to disliking the Block Editor, because I can’t easily find my bold and italics, and in fact, I seem to have lost italics completely. (Update: I did figure it out soon after making this post.)