My allergies flare anytime I spend much time outdoors too, but sometimes I just have to live. By the time church was over today, all the pain had settled in as a near-migraine headache. Seeing tree shadows on the road as we drove along really increased the sick feeling.
I came home, ate lunch, took Excedrin and Diet Coke, and headed on out to work. I hated doing it on Sunday, but that ox was thoroughly in the mire! Anyway, the headache is gone, but I bet my body is going to be aching tomorrow.
I'm using "borrowed" pictures becasue it's dark and cold and I can't really go out and take pictures right now. Or at least I don't want to.
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| These are great to work with, and don't have to be "perfect" to look great--as long as they are straight. We stained ours with a redwood stain. https://www.lowes.com |
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| This isn't ours, but it's close to the color we stained ours. Besides the pretty color, we hope it will make it last longer. https://removeandreplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/DIY-Landscaping-Timbers-Raised-Garden-Bed_11.jpg |
And that buried treasure I mentioned? I put a protective layer of chicken wire over it to keep pesky thieves from digging it up, and I have great hopes of a beautiful garden of crocus, narcissus, daffodils, and tulips blooming from early spring into early summer.
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| https://www.agardenforthehouse.com/2019/10/squirrels-stealing-your-bulbs-heres-help/ |
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| https://newengland.com/today/seasons/fall/keep-squirrels-away-from-fall-bulbs/ These sites say squirrels don't actually eat bulbs, but believe me, they've taken and/or eaten every single tulip bulb out of planter boxes before. Gophers like them too. One year all my bulbs came up in a cluster, and I dug down--and down--about 12-15 inches--and found them all gathered in a gopher burrow. On the California ranch where I grew up, Mom always thought it was the deer! I bet it was gophers! There were plenty of them out on the ranch. The dogs would chase out deer anyway. Either way, she found better luck with things like Vinca. |
