I’m still here!
Yes, I’ve been away from blogging… but I have good excuses. One, I’m feeling uninspired. The only subject I can really think to write about is how unhappy I am at work, but who wants to read about that? Nobody, that’s who.
Second, I have a sick bunny. Hazel had surgery almost 3 years ago to open his floppy, loppy ear canals to combat recurring ear infections, but somehow he managed to develop one in the last month that caused some facial nerve damage, leaving him unable to chew properly. He got to the point where he would eat a soft mush on his own, but in the last few days he’s having a harder time with that so I’m syringe-feeding him again. He doesn’t mind it, but it’s just a lot of extra work. Life is much easier when he eats on his own, and fortunately he seems to be back to it as of yesterday.
Third, I’ve been landscaping! I started Thursday night by spreading 18 bags of topsoil on the flowerbed. Naturally it rained on Friday, so I spent the day driving around buying plants and more dirt. It doesn’t sound like I did much those two days, but when I think about the fact that I, personally, moved almost 2000 lbs. of dirt… it’s a wonder I’m still standing! Saturday I got up early and added cow manure and peat to the flowerbed, then turned it all under. The soil here is such heavy clay, it really needs a lot of work. I also bought mulch, and then spread some of it around some existing spots. Sunday was D-Day… I spent the entire day adding another 22 bags of topsoil to the flowerbed, raking it smooth, putting down landscape fabric, planting all but 5 plants, and mulching. I finished at 8:30… just 1/2 an hour before sunset. Phew! My goal was to get it done over the weekend, and it is mostly done. I have a few more plants coming from White Flower Farm, and I’ll be visiting Soules Garden in a couple of weeks to pick out some daylilies to fill in the big bare space. I’m planting all perennials, and most of them are not mature plants, so I’m excited to see how it looks in the next couple of years.
I may join NaBloPoMo for June… just waiting to hear what the theme is. I’m hoping it’s something I can be creative with, but I can say for certain that it’s a lot easier for me to post when I have to… it’s easier having a reminder of sorts.
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Oh man, I hate that clay soil! I have that at my old house too. It must be something about those subdivisions on former farmland… the soil isn’t like that at the house in the older part of the city.
I tore out a bush last weekend that had been in the ground for nine years. THAT was a job and a half! I don’t think I could have done it without a mattock and loppers, and there are still a bunch of roots underground. The new barberry looks nice, though.
You should have had all that soil delivered and skipped all the bags in your little car!
You know, when they build new developments they strip away all the good soil and sell it — I’m betting they didn’t do that in the old days. My mom keeps talking about how her grandmother planted all kinds of perennials at her house around Holmes Ave. and Washington St., but I’m guessing that she still had a good 12″ of topsoil on top of the heavy clay. I guess I’ll see how it works — the hostas I planted three years ago have certainly taken off in it, so I hope it’ll be okay.
Funny note about having soil delivered… originally, I was going to have 2 cubic yards of topsoil delivered, to build the flowerbed up. It turned out that was going to be WAY too much, but they wouldn’t deliver less, and Lowe’s wanted $60 to deliver. Of course if I had been smart, I would have had all the soil AND the mulch delivered at the same time, and I’m guessing they would have unloaded it where I wanted it, so I wouldn’t have had to handle it so much. Ah, live and learn.
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