Nice quiet day today. Georg was away, at the big Manu Chao show last night, and it was just me and the dogs at home. I had to work yesterday so today I treated myself to a no-pressure day of easy chores and relaxing.
It's getting too hot to do much yardwork anymore, at least the hard stuff. Luckily we did enough earlier in the year that the yard -- well, it won't maintain itself, but it can stand us taking a couple of months off from the heavy duty work.
Before I tried my hand at it, I had this idea that gardening meant strolling serenely through your landscape, occasionally stopping to pluck a weed or cut flowers for the house. Silly me! Instead we found ourselves faced with an endless series of backbreaking chores. After three years, we've finally gotten to the point where that morning stroll through the garden is part of the routine. It's nice to keep an eye on everything, just see what's doing well and what needs attention. The backbreaking chores are still there, but that's not the only thing anymore.
In any case, I did spend about an hour outside in the morning before it got too hot. I worked on weeding the daylily bed out by the road: the back of the bed around the fence. It's hard to get in there from either outside or in. And the daylilies hide the weeds, so I don't even see them until they're huge and overgrown.
This fall I'd like to clear the ground under the fence and cover it with cardboard and mulch, about 8 inches on either side. That way we wouldn't have weeds growing up against and in the fence, where the mower can't get to them. That's what I want to do this fall. Today I just started digging out the worst of the vines and brambles. In an hour I got through a little more than 1 segment of the fence (out of 6). Not great progress, but not bad either. Certainly better than not getting any of it done.
And that was it for the outside work today. Afterwards I went to the supermarket, called my dad, got dinner started (my favorite Mexican pork stew), did some laundry, watched movies and Ninja Warrior and knitted. What a fun day!
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