This weekend, we worked our fingers to the bone - or, more appropriately, wore the fingers off our gloves - tidying up the garden/yard. We're not quite done, but we:
- weeded all the beds
- mowed the lawn
- changed over annual planters to mums (yuck)
- turned all the compost
- raked leaves
- watered every dang plant in the yard
- pruned & deadheaded everything
- Ken finished the grape trellis extension, then he
- finished nailing the last few fence slats, then he
- cut the large corner fence post down one level (the aesthetics weren't working), then
- I built and installed a fence cap on it (made from scrap cedar + the lid of a cast lantern I got at a yard sale for $3 - which saved my life because I was sucking at cutting double miters to make a little cupola-type thingy).
This is me on my tiptoes, trying to get a photo of the little roof.
You gotta love these Autum Joy sedum - even though everyone else has them (usually I have to be different), they're still such a superstar.
Tidier!
Nerd or not, sh*t's getting done.
Did I forget anything? I'm tired again, thinking about it. So the punch list is getting shorter. Here's what it looks like now, all in priority order & by category (at great risk to myself I post this, knowing that CAB is rolling her eyes and thinking, "You nerd").
Nerd or not, sh*t's getting done. 
8 comments:
Ditto on the Autumn Joy. Easy, cheap, and a big bang when all your other plants are past their peak appearance.
I was just getting ready to do a post on my garden blog about Autumn Joy...dang you beat me to it.
Love the post cap.
When I click on your comment link, an ad comes up. This is reproducible.
Is this by design, or is something infected...
Karen Anne - that's interesting. It didn't just happen to me when I clicked the comment link, and I have no clue what it might be. ?
I am so envious of your list with all the little lines through stuff! Crossing things off a list is the most satisfying thing in the world.
You're right. I totally was! :)
Now that you're done, any chance you can give us a pictorial tour of the grounds front and back?
Hey Anon - good idea! Work is CRAAAZY this month, but when we get a chance to breathe, we'll do that. Especially now that it's tidy :) I'm hoping to weed the very last messy garden section tonight.
Don't wait too long -- snow's not far off in your neck of the woods!
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