animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

hot, hot, hot

It has been very hot outside. This hasn’t stopped me from doing things in the yard in the evening because stuff needs to be done. I finally finished mulching and weeding the pond hillside, for one. And I did remove some more ivy from the shed area. I had to …

bye, tree

One of the pine trees in my side yard got way bigger than expected so I had it removed today. This was an “in progresss” photo. I was half tempted to leave it like that–it looked like a palm tree. Haha. Sadly, I will now have to look at the …

garden therapy

I took Thursday off work in order to pick up some plants from the Cambria County Conservation District’s annual plant sale. Normally pickup is in April but it got pushed back this year for reasons you might be able to guess. All of the plants were for my pond area, …

this weather

I have so much stuff to do outside, but the weather has not been cooperating. With all of the free time I have these days, I really thought the yard would be in good shape by now, but it’s usually cold, raining, and/or snowing, so I haven’t been able to …