best of intentions

[kaigou]

I was going to do 3w4dw (even if I had no clue of any real theme) but then there was the weather and the weeds and it's been more like a month for rocks.



There are posts to be written and to be read and to be caught up on, but first I need morning tea and then water the newly-spread grass seed... and if the past month's any example, I'll probably move a few rocks as long as I'm out there...

The little white sheet in the bed in the foreground is a sunscreen for plants put in just two days ago -- all-day full-sun is a bit more intense without a nursery's overhead shades, even if the plant really is a full-sun plant. And the destruction in the background is because I've ripped out whatever sod we have and have been pulling weeds left and right, to prep the main circle of the yard for grass seed (and up along the driveway).

So it looks like destructo-yard, but that's still better than 3' tall weeds. Really.

Comments

[annotated_em]

Ooooooh. Nice.

[kaigou]

Thanks. What's bizarre is that my back aches when I'm moving stuff, and then it's fine -- it's my elbows that are having the worst trouble. I think it's the repetitive pull/push of moving the rocks when building the stone walls. Not sure. (Where did it go, that body I had at sixteen!?)

[leorising]

Wow! I don't think I've seen this much of an over-all view before! You've done a really terrific job, I think. Working the beds into terraced circles is inspired, for the kind of space you have. Now I know what you mean when you say you've been "moving rocks" all day! Well done, m'dear. Well done. *hands you Ben-Gay*

[kaigou]

bengay! Forget that, I want a masseuse who does housecalls!

[branchandroot]

Lovely terraces.

*sighs* Yeah, I have to go start uprooting the thistles before they take over everything.

[kaigou]

Any chance they're cirsium texanum? If so, send them to MEEEEEEEE. Neighbors and I want to plant unfriendly plants to keep people from cutting through our properties to get to the creek -- but who the hell sells thistles or prickly poppies or bullnettles? No one, apparently. Damn it.

[branchandroot]

*wry* Alas, these are a different breed. They have much broader leaves and less showy flowers. And I'm afraid they'd be hideously invasive; they spread like holy whoa. I mean, they're worse than the /grass/.

Perhaps a thorny berry would work? A good raspberry thicket will stop almost anything.

[roseya19]

Very nice!!! I'm jealous of your energy for such tasks. My own yard could use some destructo attention.

*looks at sea of dandelions, ratty lilac bush, overgrown stuff held in with rotting railroad ties*

Actually, it could use a LOT of it. *sigh*

[kaigou]

Hey, it's cheaper than therapy.

[maire]

It looks like it will be beautiful.