These are the days when I feel like all I do is walk up and down that hill. I KNOW I'm busy, but it always feels like I'm not getting anything accomplished. Then, at the end of the day, when I think back, I realize I DID get a lot done, but mostly it's those little things that add up, that would have become big things if I hadn't attended to them.
Yesterday felt like a "nothing" day, but I got the water iris from the Folly Pond cleaned up, divided, and replanted in the pond. The divisions are in a bucket; I'm going to keep some of them for the Pot Corral display and re-home the rest once I'm sure they are the native Louisiana Game Cock iris and not the European yellow water iris.
I reattached the door onto the hen run, temporarily, so I could see where the other door post needed to go. Then I cleared out the hole for that post. There's a pad of concrete at the bottom of that hole from a long-previous post and it has a divot in the middle that is collecting water and that's what probly led the last post to rot and break over. So I poured a little concrete into the divot to fill it.
I got a fairly big dead limb sawed off the mulberry tree that shades the hen run. That tree could use another good going over, but not at this time of year. The sap is rising and even cutting off that mostly dead limb caused a lot of dripping.
I reattached the wire netting to the back of the hen run, to the new post that I set last week.
And I pulled out a few more patches of winter cress in the South Border. All this in light of the fact that I spent 2 hours helping a friend move. I thought I was only there to move some big houseplants, but ended up making two trips with lots of other stuff as well. She's only moving a few miles, so not a big deal.
Today we're mowing the lawn for the first time this year. I'm hoping to get that second post set up early this morning, then get the mower out once the grass has dried off. It's going to be a bear; the grass on the hillside behind the house is really deep in patches.
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Definitely going to sort out the seed box and get rid of a lot of old (4 years) packets. I've got sage, rosemary, lettuce, chinese cabbage, and a few other things that are showing no signs of germination. I'll keep those flats going for another week but I'm tossing the remaining packets. The lettuce and chinese cabbage should have been leaping out of the ground by now.
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Eclipse was dramatic. We did not have totality, but it got very dim and only a crescent of the sun was visible for a while. We had very dark welding lenses to view through. Did not observe any odd behaviors in my cats or hens; the wild birds got a bit louder for a while when it was darkest, I think they thought evening was approaching. Such a strange, eerie light! Something utterly unique; it did not look like dawn light or twilight, it did not even look like that strange, sickly storm light that comes with thunder. Just a unique and ominous sort of flat dead orange-tawny light. It is no wonder people take eclipses as portents of dire times to come.
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