Thursday, 25 May 2023
The Red Barn
We weeded, Allan watered and strimmed the garden edge’s long grass, and I petted Cosmo.

Some young boys also gave Cosmo kind attention, making him a contented cat.




A beautiful pony:

The farrier was by the south door, so Allan took a circuitous route to water the lone planter there.


Diane’s garden
Holly got her biscuit.

Allan checked on the cosmos he had planted by the driveway last week….

…while I planted more at the back of the septic vault garden.

We went home because it was too early to water Long Beach. While I watered, Allan did two nearby jobs.
J Crew Cottage mowing:

Strimming at the future Smart Moves Clinic:


He watered the narrow front bed, where a handsome hosta has emerged.

Then we both went off to water, which I had been dreading because the wind was strong and cold.
Long Beach
It was an endurance situation, just pushing through with grinding teeth and muscles all clenched because of the cold wind. First, the planters on Sid Snyder Drive.

And I have to admit, I said and meant that we would NOT haul bucket water a block to the last planter, near the beach, where the water doesn’t work. And we did not. Maybe next week.
In the distance, I rollatored along from where I had been watering more eastern planters to catch up with Allan at the last functional faucet planter.

We then watered the six long blocks of Long Beach planters, occasionally pulling a few weeds from under the street trees. But mostly just watering the planters; it was so cold I just wanted to get out of there. I feel the cold more because of old age, I think.


The larger Lewis and Clark Square planter gets watered with two short hoses hooked up to the nearby street planter.

I did pull a few more long grass weeds out of the strip of garden in the NE quadrant of Fifth Street Park. It’s out of the north wind there.


Allan hose watered the bed in the SE quadrant where the water just doesn’t seem to be on or to be hitting the plants properly. Those sprinklers don’t do much when the plants get tall.


A Cerinthe major purpurascens in the evening light
We were so glad to get done and get home and indoors.
Tomorrow is the beginning of our garden open days. [I apologize that I never formally announced an invitation here. I was tired and sort of forgot that the blog runs a week behind. We will have another garden open around the end of July/beginning of August, if fate allows.] We will be up early because we want to start at 9 AM, at the same time that the three or four day “world’s longest garage sale” begins. That was not truly essential and I sort of felt like it was a mistake to add getting up early to our schedule. Alicia had been going to do a garage sale next door starting the same day but got delayed, and we had already announced our start time. None of us are morning people so this will perhaps be a challenge.