To mow the lawn, everything has to be piled to one side, or in the sandbox. No pool today. It was even more humid than yesterday and the kids woke up from their naps unrested and a touch whiny. They gulped down juice and cucumber, cried a little bit, fought some, and started to get excited about our trip to Vermont. It is Maxim's best friend, Gwen, that we will be traveling with and her grandmother's house that we will stay at. The grass had gotten longer than I thought, especially in the places where it receives the most water, right in the center. I moved the cluster of plants, the slide, the ladder for the windows, and our plastic chairs, along with the hose into a narrow strip next to the south facing fence. We always use that reel mower. It does a nice job and doesn't add toxins to the air. Maxim and I bought more finch food for the bird feeder. The finches don't know it's full yet, but I suspect they will have figured it out before we return.
Everything is then moved to the other side of the yard or to its resting place - mostly outside the view of the camera. The cluster of plants moved back to their temporary home. We're almost ready to go. All we need now is to make a list of things for Catherine to take care of. Our bags are packed and our friends will be ready to go in about 45 minutes.
These flowers have grown vigorously along the back corner of our fence. Our neighbors called them weeds until they flowered and starting attracting butterflies and dragonflies. Now they call them daisy clusters. We think they look a little bit like galaxies from a distance. There were six or seven individual plants earlier in the summer, but now there are three, and they are nearing their end. Still, the dragonflies come. You have to be careful to mow around some of the shoots in the early spring, or these flowers will never come. We will try to cultivate them again next year; their seeds are everywhere now.
To mow the lawn, everything has to be piled to one side, or in the sandbox. No pool today. It was even more humid than yesterday and the kids woke up from their naps unrested and a touch whiny. They gulped down juice and cucumber, cried a little bit, fought some, and started to get excited about our trip to Vermont. It is Maxim's best friend, Gwen, that we will be traveling with and her grandmother's house that we will stay at. The grass had gotten longer than I thought, especially in the places where it receives the most water, right in the center. I moved the cluster of plants, the slide, the ladder for the windows, and our plastic chairs, along with the hose into a narrow strip next to the south facing fence. We always use that reel mower. It does a nice job and doesn't add toxins to the air. Maxim and I bought more finch food for the bird feeder. The finches don't know it's full yet, but I suspect they will have figured it out before we return.
Everything is then moved to the other side of the yard or to its resting place - mostly outside the view of the camera. The cluster of plants moved back to their temporary home. We're almost ready to go. All we need now is to make a list of things for Catherine to take care of. Our bags are packed and our friends will be ready to go in about 45 minutes.
These flowers have grown vigorously along the back corner of our fence. Our neighbors called them weeds until they flowered and starting attracting butterflies and dragonflies. Now they call them daisy clusters. We think they look a little bit like galaxies from a distance. There were six or seven individual plants earlier in the summer, but now there are three, and they are nearing their end. Still, the dragonflies come. You have to be careful to mow around some of the shoots in the early spring, or these flowers will never come. We will try to cultivate them again next year; their seeds are everywhere now.
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