In my dreams. I'm working more, actually. I'm tired. I want to go home.
Which leads to the other not what I expected. I'm still feeling like the new house is a temporary place, like a vacation rental, and I'm going to have to give it back soon. How weird is that?
However, Pablo has declared it to be home, so home it is. Since he's the real boss around here.
So. I just came back in from drilling more drainage holes in my front porch flower pots, since they have been getting flooded and not draining with all the torrential downpours we've been having. The red geraniums are looking soggy. They needed help. So glad I bought a drill, I can do these things myself, instead of looking for some guy with a drill to give me a hand. So far, I've mostly used it to drill holes in the bottoms of plastic flower pots. At least there my aim (or lack thereof) is not critical.
We also had a nice long walk, to a neighborhood with more shade, where I almost bought a house but didn't, I bought this one instead. Something to do with the bloody infernal racket from the railroad crossing gate that's only a block away from that place. It's a nice house, too, and it looks like it's still vacant, tho there's no realtor sign on the lawn. The shade is provided in large part by sycamore trees of great height. I love sycamore trees (as long as it's not me sweeping up after them), they have that bark that peels off and is crunchy to walk on....takes me back to being a kid.
Now, in my own yard, I've finally got the blank spot where there used to be a rather large maple tree turned into a cute little garden spot, aka an obstacle course for Pablo. I'm not the lucky one who had to have the tree removed, but they left a lot of stump, and of course you can't do much of anything about the roots, so planting things can be a challenge. Like when you attack the earth with a shovel, and it just bounces off.
I posted before and after pics on FB, and people reacted more to the before than the after, which is a tad annoying. So here I'll just put up a couple of afters, and actually it looks better today (a week later) because the Stella D'oros have bloomed some more, which I didn't expect at all. Of course, with all the rain, the weeds are coming back. Can't win anyhow.
Same thing, different angles of view. The outside pots there are tomatoes, and the middle one is volunteer marigolds. I have tomatoes happening, none of them are ripe yet. The circle is actually sort of a small scale hill, too, so Pablo likes hopping over the stones and running up and down the hill. It's also now got a couple of solar lights, took me a while to find them in the garage. Conveniently, they were right next to my drill.
So that's what we've been up to, in the little spare time I've had lately. And Pablo has new favorite sleepy spots, as you can see here:
Afghans 'r us.
