LysmachiaMoon's blog: Intimidating

I dunno, maybe watching YouTube garden tour type videos is not a good idea. I've just finished viewing three of them and now I feel totally intimidated and inadequate. My good lord, these gardens are spectacular! Ponds, decks, pools, gazebos, lighting, artwork...there's a frigging water slide in one of them! How am I going to do that?? *LOL* I console myself with the thought that these folks are obviously rolling in money. Must be nice. Have the time and the moola to do all that....not like here, one woman and a wheelbarrow *mutter mutter, gripe, mutter.*

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Our heat wave continues. We're dancing around the century mark on the thermometer and our heat index hit 110F yesterday. It probably was as bad or worse today because I think the humidity is higher...it's been overcast all day. One of those truly ugly days of gray skies, high heat, and dry wandering wind. Ugh. I've got to start bucketing some water around this evening. I'm holding off dragging out the hoses because we are forecast to get rain tomorrow and I really dread having to get out the "watering system" if I don't have to.

Spent another good hour-plus in the veg this morning, weeding and harvesting. Did some cleanup around the Pond Circle, but it got too hot to go on. The older more established borders are holding their own, but could use a good tidy. I'm hoping to get to that tomorrow. It's not so much one of those hands-and-knees weeding jobs; more like yank out a weed here, snip down an overgrown plant there. I ought to carry a notebook with me and make notes of what I need to do when the weather gets a bit more accomodating.

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Started brining some cucumber slices to make bread and butter pickles tomorrow and I've got more veg harvested. Tomorrow morning I'll try to get the pickles processed and finish up with canning the beans.

I spritzed around some of that smelly deer repellent last evening and no sign of any more deer intrusion. Keep fingers crossed.

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