Weeding

Well I didn’t make anything yesterday. Instead I discovered part of my yard on the other side of the trailer and the back side of the house where I never go, was filled with weeds and I took care of those. With all the rain the weeds have gone crazy and the bunnies don’t touch them. It only took an hour or two, but being in the shape I’m in, it did me in for the rest of the day. All of this because I went and checked to see if the neighbors Argentine Giant cactus was blooming. It was.

Looks like there are several more blossoms to come. 

Took a few pics around the yard. I dug up a couple of bulbs that had been growing under the grapefruit tree, not sure what they are, they haven’t bloomed since they have been there. But I put them in the bottom planter with the other green thing I put in there a week or so ago. I had to wreck the roots, so I hope I didn’t totally kill them. The bunnies haven’t touched them. The bulbs were quite large, wasn’t expecting that. Something I must have tossed under the tree at some point. A lot of my compostables go under that tree.

Here are a few blooms from my yard.

      

I also cleaned up the little cactus garden area at the side of the driveway and rearranged the railroad ties I had been using as a tire stop for the car. Got one of the concrete ones a while back and that made the ties pretty much redundant. They are now outlining the little cactus garden area. 

  

The cactus are growing much slower now that they aren’t getting any more water than mother nature provides. Since we have had so much rain, there has been some noticeable growth, but no blossoms, and one of them didn’t make it at all. It went in the trash with the weeds. I might put one of the aloes out there, but not sure where. The aloes will eventually take over the area. I might try to get a couple of new cactus pups since they are on their own and won’t fill the area so fast. 

It felt pretty good being outside and doing something even if I did have to keep taking breaks. The sunshine is healthy as long as I don’t get too much and it doesn’t hit my scar. Would have been better if it had been warm enough to be in shorts, but I’ll take what I can get. 

Of course I spent the rest of the day reading on the patio. I’m outside as much as I can be. Tried to take a nap since I only had four hours sleep, but pretty much failed. And I only got about four so far tonight. I do want to try to get more. 

Picking up my iris seed at the post office today. My day lilies won’t be here until some time next week. I'm excited about getting some more bloomers going. Hoping they will survive the heat.