2 December: done

Thursday, 2 December 2021

I had been feeling like it was taking a long time to get to staycation till I saw these Facebook memories this morning. This would have been back when we had way more jobs including the Ilwaco planters, Long Beach, Andersen’s RV Park, Anchorage Cottages, Klipsan Beach Cottages, and several more private gardens. I don’t know how we did it!

All of a sudden our present life seems easy by comparison.

The Depot Restaurant

We added three yellow tulips and watered the window boxes.

North garden

Fuchsia ‘Hawkshead’

Watering

The Planter Box

We stocked up on potting soil because prices are supposed to rise.

Katie’s garden

We weeded, planted bulbs and mulched at this garden which we only visit a couple of times a year….and acquired two buckets of bunny poop! The two friendly kittens had become cats.

Some work got done as well as cat time!

Poo of Bun

Patti’s garden

I had a few more bulbs to plant, but our main mission was to get the really big pot. However, when I started to dig the rest of the soil out of it, I changed my mind. It weighs so much, and we don’t have any friends with good backs to help. There was too much chance of a disaster. It is a BIG and very thick-walled pot.

So we just planted bulbs, mulched, and visited with Patti and with Stella, who had been out with a dog walker but got back in time for a biscuit.

At home

By 3:30, we were home and started our staycation. It doesn’t quite seem real, maybe because there is the bear-destroyed fence to rebuild, the south fence to move and a privacy barrier to design and plant, and life does not seem relaxing yet.

I moved compost clippings and bunny poo out of the trailer while Allan moved the potting soil bags. He then lost no time in returning to his project of moving the front arbor.

Meanwhile, I unloaded some gardening tools and supplies from the van, which needs a total clean out after the months of work season. Susie and Bill stopped by with some groceries, having kindly thought of us while across the river at Costco.

Allan ran out of daylight to take an after photo once he had moved the second post and put the arbor top into place. He’s not even sure if the top is quite even because of the darkness.

I wasn’t sure we were going to make it through this work season, especially in August and September when I had so much vertigo that I couldn’t work at all for awhile. What a relief. The staycation feeling is slowly sinking in. The work board tonight: