Today while at Lowes the end of the season fruit trees were 50% off. I picked up a gala apple, a plum and a nectarine tree.
They are currently on the side of the house. But I plan on putting in a mini orchard in the yard next to the pool (that clothes line that I have only used for pool towels will come out)
Fall is the only time I really put any energy into the actual grass yard at my house, besides mowing all summer. This is actually Missy yard, it’s where she lounges in the shade, where she plays with her friends and why I must over seed it in the fall.
Today started out mowing and pupping* the back yard then putting down the four bags of organic seed and sod starter compost. Once those four were down I realized I needed more and headed to Lowes for four more. I poured four more bags on the yard and worked it all into the grass focusing on some of the larger divots from the dogs. After all eight were all spread out I knew I could have used more but that will be in for this year. I over seeded with 10 pounds of seed designed for direct sun. It think this may be why my yard (Missy’s yard) stayed greener than previous years.
*pupping: Long ago abbreviation from list making. Pick Up Poop was reduced to PUP, which now its just how I refer to it.
Pup, pupped, pupping. As in: Can you PUP today its going to rain.
Well the furnace turned on tonight. I guess the house got below 55 where the thermostat has been set since May.
The cushions from the deck furniture were stored in the shed tonight, about 2 hours before the rain started.
I also should have had a headlamp or flashlight with me when walking Missy tonight.
There is still lots of garden and yard clean up to do. Heres hoping for a mild Autumn so I can get some things finished (oh and 12 or so extra daylight hours each weekend wouldn’t hurt)
I’ve gone around and closed all the windows I’ve had open most of the summer. The screen on the downstairs window had been attempted to be removed, luckily the dowel in the window would have stopped anyone at the screen. But Since the window is right above Missy’s chair in the dog room I prefer to think that if someone did try and remove the screen she scared the crap right out of them. Can you imagine thinking you might try and break into a place and have a big black dog stand up in a chair and full on bark in your face.
It smells like rain, earth and that musky air. It’s cool outside and the leaves are all changing color. Its time to plant fall bulbs and start making soups.
What a beautiful weekend. I woke early Saturday to the sound of rain. By the time I got up and made coffee it was done. I got an early start on projects. Pulling out veggies in the garden and discovering the Raccoons or Squirrels or both had gone ahead and harvested most of the corn, consumed it and left the cobs all over for me.
I didn’t get as much corn as I had hoped as you may recall the Raccoon destroyed a lot of the stalks earlier this summer. My back yard is completely fenced in, at least a six foot fence, my neighbors garden is in his front yard, fenced in by a cute little decorative picket fence, a fence I could step over. His corn is huge, ears that Dumbo would be jealous of. No Raccoons have even bugged his garden. In fact I am sure they have traipsed right past that beautiful garden to climb my six fence and destroy my garden. I can only assume it is so I can continue to have a blogging topic.
I did salvage some of the corn before pulling it all out and had some for dinner tonight, yummy! I got a lot of the veggies pulled out. There are so many ripe still good tomatoes on the vines so I only pulled out one before I stopped and will pick them this week and then will finish pulling them out.
I got the yards all mowed and was at Lowes quite early this morning, dropped some of my overtime money on sod soil, grass seed to over seed some vinca minor starts I’m gonna plant in front to sore up a little hill and a few other things for projects (cement patch and black top patch.)
I filled holes in the back yard (Missy and friends yard) with the soil. By the end of summer the dogs do quite number on this yard. But it is theirs, so I fill all the divots and overseed it in fall. Last year it worked quite well and I used a seed that was for full sun and hot areas and although the grass finally died in spots it stayed green much longer then the other yards. This gives Missy cool grass to lay in during the summer.
Thing is the two bags of soil didn’t fill nearly all the little holes so back I went this evening and bought four more bags. But after all the work before today’s “Gorey” football game and a 2.5 mile walk with Missy all I had in me was the energy to unload them and take a hot shower.
I stopped working in the garden about 1pm to come in and watch the Seahawks lose to Frank Gore, well the whole 49ers team but really it was Gore that did them in. Two long touch down runs, 79 and 80 yards. Crazy.
Since I have to be at work at 5:30 tomorrow morning, I be heading to bed here soon even though it’s not even dark. I am exhausted enough however I don’t think I’ll have any trouble falling asleep.
