And the idiot dog and I are going to start walking again but earlier in the morning than we did today. . and I am still killing, by(Yuck) hand bugs on my squash plants. . cuz I am eating that green stuff and giving some away. . and need the plants to live. . so I can eat zucchini this summer. .
I need to finish up a sweater for myself I have been working on and I need to work the ends in on a pair of socks I have bound off this morning. . all small parts of a quiet retired life.
Money is way too tight. . my choices and poor math and planning. . but I do have some perennial plants and we have had a lot of rain so they have gotten a good start, the front bed along the new front porch that was done last year, 3 Japanese Maple babies, and some perennials for what will become a border between the shop building and the retaining block end of the berm under the power line. I will manage better. . I made some poor financial decisions and the charges for over draft have me very in the red. . which I have NOT had a problem with for many years. . I am beating myself for it and will work hard to get my financial shit back in good order. . but the plants are doing ok, some are actually thriving and they are ALL perennial plants that will, with a bit of time and care, really make an improvement that I have wanted for years.
And the Rose of Sharon ‘sticks’ that I was given last summer are doing well, neighbors on the north let me remove the ones in their yard. . I have spent years watching them try to kill them out by chopping them down. . . which makes them put up more shoots. . . they are doing ok, it will take them a few years to. really become something pretty, and it will create a visual barrier between my north property line and their south side, and also provide more privacy for them on their own front porch. Their solid fence across the street side does a lot of that, and in time, my plantings will increase my feeling of privacy here on this very exposed corner lot.
I am battling some depression, and will work on that my way. . I know life here is ok, I know that I can survive the darn bugs in the squash, squishing them is gross but easy and my hands wash easily enough. .
The dog is occasionally a stress problem. . that’s on me, not on him, not his fault that his first 5 years were in an kennel and probably a hobby breeder. . this is a good place for him and he is good for me, we need to get out earlier and walk every day, we did for months and then I got stupid and lazy. . we will both be healthier and better balanced if we get out and walk in the mornings.
We did have a big storm come through and it took down the power lines and the huge old oak tree across the street, now the view out that west facing living room window seems wrong and way too open. The house is a rental and the pit is still a gaping mess that I am going to get ambitious and go over there with a rake and see if I can pull some more of the soil back where it should be so the area can get grass seed and quit being an ugly scar.
And I have named a tree here, it’s Squirrel as that pecan that sprouted was probably dropped by a squirrel as there are NO pecan trees anywhere close, it will take years to grow any amount, but i will baby it and fuss and talk to it. . and probably leave it where it’s at now, the front corner of that planting bed along the sidewalk, under the junk Chinese elm is were it was when I found it. . and yes, I am pleased, I doubt if I live long enough to see it mature enough to have nuts, but I can enjoy watching it grow. I have done that will all the other trees here, the first I have bought are. the Japanese maples, the sassafras and tulip poplar were ‘rescued’ from a house that was in foreclosure and were growing against the foundation.
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