Monday, 22 November 2021
Long Beach
Today was supposed to be a rainy reading day. However, when we arrived home yesterday, I realized I had left my old wooden cane in the city works debris pile and that I had neglected to mulch one small shabby looking stretch of the city hall garden. With gas $4.25 a gallon, a forty minute round trip drive just for the cane was simply not on, so…we went to work. Was this a way for my subconscious to resist letting go of Long Beach?
The cane was right where I had buried it with yesterday’s debris. The big pile of sand that is sure to be spread around the field was still intact.
We filled buckets in the mulch barn.
Outside, it was nice weather for ducks.
The city crew was on break, so I took the opportunity to return our key to the kingdom. Maybe that will help in letting go.
On we went into the storm to dump five buckets on the west side of city hall.
Ilwaco Community Building
I had thought yesterday that I wished I had more mulch for the Ilwaco Community Building, especially the upper tiered garden. The Friends of the Library have bought mulch for us before but have not been able to have their big fundraiser book sales during the pandemic, so I had not wanted to ask. I therefore considered it part of our garden charity for Ilwaco to add the biosolids mulch.
The Sanguisorba ‘Pink Elephant’ has gotten so weedy that it has got to go. I saved a bucket of mulch to fill in later. I love Pink Elephant because it gets so tall, but this year that inspired someone to climb into the garden and cut it back because it dared to put flowers over the railing. That made me feel territorial. I think we will replace it with a hardy fuchsia.
Allan’s knack for finding money was met with a penny today.
We were home before two, very wet and cold and with a big load of muddy laundry to do.
a garden show
I found the first episode of the new BBC gardening show, The Wild Gardener, here. In it, a professional wildlife photographer returns to acreage from his childhood and we follow his project of making ponds and planting it in a way to attract as much wildlife as possible. It’s a beautiful show. I was inspired by his “dead hedge” which is built against a chain link fence as a shelter for critters. If the new building appears to our south, I may do something like this with our wire panel fence, once “we” move it several feet to the south.
The wild gardener, Colin Stafford-Johnson, had a wonderful father, Barney Johnson, who presented the first Irish television gardening show and who died of cancer at just age 50. He would be so proud of his boy.
Oh, that gardening show sounds good! Will be looking for it. Glad you found your cane. And since today is Thanksgiving, a very happy Thanksgiving to you.
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Thank you, same to you.
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I have had a run away golf trolley. It is quite embarrassing to see one take off.
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Happy Thanksgiving, Skyler and Allan! Thank you for bringing beauty to Long Beach and Ilwaco. Hope you enjoy a warm, dry day after all your hard work in our wet November weather.
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Actually, we worked but at least not in rain
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I look forward to you starting Staycation. Time for some rest and book reading with the cats in your lap.
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