Sunday, 30 April 2017
From inside the house, I could see this on a bamboo pole:

Allan’s photos
‘We figured it belonged to baby Celestine down the street, who is often taken for a buggy ride past our house, so we dropped it on her porch. Celestine is too young to have put it on the pole herself.
Ilwaco boatyard
My goal was to get an edge put on the back of the south strip of boatyard garden. This could only be done on the weekend when we know boats won’t be coming in and out of the yard.

before: 11:30 AM

11:30 AM
We pushed ourselves hard because of an upcoming afternoon event.

1:30 PM

1:30 PM
Allan had also done some string trimming at the north end:

It is a busy work area by the boats.

just along the edges behind the garden

debris
Allan dropped me at home so I could dig and box up some plants while he dumped the debris, and then we gathered our sign and earth flag and rushed over to Black Lake for the
Indivisible Climate Change Rally and Plant Exchange
The idea was that Joe Chasse and Allan would boat around the lake with earth flag and signage. Joe’s heavy wooden sign on a small barge turned out to be too heavy to tow easily…
So he brought it up to join the rest of us who were picketing along the street.
Joe is a veteran and worked for years on boats, mostly in Alaska, and he knows the importance of the Coast Guard.

We are legion.
Allan did successfully sail (and row) with the earth flag.

Allan left the flag with me and rowed back to the other end where he’d left the van.
Gwen, who organized this rally, wrote: “It was a lovely day to be out on the streets smiling at folks as they drove by. Denny counted 70 cars in 10 minutes times 2 hours. That’s over 800 cars with an average of 2 passengers. Good audience for our smiles and poster work. Methinks there should be more poster work ahead and more pop up rallies on sunny days. The plant exchange was bountiful as well. Thanks to everyone who showed up today.”
After an hour and 45 minutes holding our signs, we had our little plant exchange.

Gwen and Robert’s doggie.

Allan’s photo

Allan’s photo

Gwen gave me a pin that I love.
at home
When we went home to pick up our work trailer, we gave an impromptu tour to our friend Gene and his companion who had just stopped by. Although the garden is embarassingly weedy, they seemed to enjoy it.
Ilwaco Community Building
Allan and I got back to work, first with some deadheading at the community building that turned into a whole lot of weeding when we saw how much horsetail and bindweed had popped up.
Life Flight came over to the hospital just to the north and took off again post haste, meaning someone was having a terrible day.

The community bulding with Life Flight coming in for a landing.

Allan’s photo

deadheads with bindweed (Allan’s photo)

Life Flight leaving (Allan’s photo)
I complained vociferously about the bindweed, horsetail, salal, and way too much heather, four reasons why I had resisted taking on this job. The upside of the job is that the library is in this building. I find it meaningful for the library to have a beautiful garden.
There are still too damn many flat, scratchy heathers, though, and it’s beyond me why anyone would plant the vigorously running salal where it can entwine with other plants.
boatyard again
We returned to the boatyard to string trim the newly weeded edge.

repeat photo of before

tonight
Now we just have to find time before Saturday to finish weeding the garden…

damnable horsetail
We are counting on the predicted five weekdays of good weather to get all gardens as perfect as possible before next Saturday and Sunday’s parades.