Working in the Perennial Slope Garden and at the pond with Willem
So far...I have been filming a lot today. I should check on them uploading, actually...
I got up around 8 or 8:30. I had been awake from 2-3am, not for any reason, just awake.
I carried one of the roof pieces for the deer fence and went for a walk down to the end of the peninsula at Willem's Garden. I found the stream was not sending as much water into the meadow anymore. I moved the hanging cocoon chair and sat down looking over the meadow, listening to the waterfall, the bluebirds, chipping sparrows and song sparrows. A kingfisher flew into the top of a tree as well.
I made a few videos as I sat and chatted away. I came back up to the house, found the post hole digger and asked Willem to dig some holes for teacup posts for me. He dug and we put in nine more posts around beds closer to the bottom of the perennial slope garden. It is nice be working in the garden. The soil isn't cold anymore, either. I thought it would be quite frozen, but yesterday Willem was able to remove a tall post in the lane for me, so I realized it was fine!
Last autumn he had helped me by digging up the irises in the beds. We had moved them and removed many to the sides of the peninsula pond lane. So there are now lovely dug up beds in the garden, in areas where I'd not taken care of the beds and where the grass had overgrown it.
We filled up the car with the white poles and took them and another roof frame down to Willem's garden. He took rocks from the side of his garden to the dip in the terrain between it and the labyrinth.
I got my feet wet walking on the dock in the shallow of Fiddlehead Pond to get a post log for the lowlying area for my little footbridge.
We sat for a little while, then I came back to the house cos my wet feet were bothering me, making me cold. I drew the bathwater in the upstairs tub. I like using that bathroom best now. It's such a nice, pretty bathroom!
I got warmed up, then cut the drywall for the window in our bedroom upstairs, the one that will be somewhat bigger, easier to see out of and a bit lower on the wall. I had marked the lines yesterday, so cutting it with my little power tool was simple.
I pulled off the drywall and looked at the amount of rot the leaking windowsill had caused. I hope I will be cutting it all out when I cut off the studs lower where the window will sit.
It is a cold raw sort of day, as it hovers above freezing a bit, so I didn't want to cut the hole yet. I measured the new window and cut the boards for the frame for it.
I went outside and turned over the deer food bowls as there was water in them. Don't want mosquitoes to have a place to breed later! I also gathered up all the unused birdhouses and put them in the car. They are going down to the pond. I'm going to wade out to the trees in the flooded meadow and tie them into the trees. I searched around in the greenhouse for long enough straps and put them in the car as well.
I came back up to our room to sit and journal about the day so far. I will work on the window again when my back stops hurting!
I got up around 8 or 8:30. I had been awake from 2-3am, not for any reason, just awake.
I carried one of the roof pieces for the deer fence and went for a walk down to the end of the peninsula at Willem's Garden. I found the stream was not sending as much water into the meadow anymore. I moved the hanging cocoon chair and sat down looking over the meadow, listening to the waterfall, the bluebirds, chipping sparrows and song sparrows. A kingfisher flew into the top of a tree as well.
I made a few videos as I sat and chatted away. I came back up to the house, found the post hole digger and asked Willem to dig some holes for teacup posts for me. He dug and we put in nine more posts around beds closer to the bottom of the perennial slope garden. It is nice be working in the garden. The soil isn't cold anymore, either. I thought it would be quite frozen, but yesterday Willem was able to remove a tall post in the lane for me, so I realized it was fine!
Last autumn he had helped me by digging up the irises in the beds. We had moved them and removed many to the sides of the peninsula pond lane. So there are now lovely dug up beds in the garden, in areas where I'd not taken care of the beds and where the grass had overgrown it.
We filled up the car with the white poles and took them and another roof frame down to Willem's garden. He took rocks from the side of his garden to the dip in the terrain between it and the labyrinth.
I got my feet wet walking on the dock in the shallow of Fiddlehead Pond to get a post log for the lowlying area for my little footbridge.
We sat for a little while, then I came back to the house cos my wet feet were bothering me, making me cold. I drew the bathwater in the upstairs tub. I like using that bathroom best now. It's such a nice, pretty bathroom!
I got warmed up, then cut the drywall for the window in our bedroom upstairs, the one that will be somewhat bigger, easier to see out of and a bit lower on the wall. I had marked the lines yesterday, so cutting it with my little power tool was simple.
I pulled off the drywall and looked at the amount of rot the leaking windowsill had caused. I hope I will be cutting it all out when I cut off the studs lower where the window will sit.
It is a cold raw sort of day, as it hovers above freezing a bit, so I didn't want to cut the hole yet. I measured the new window and cut the boards for the frame for it.
I went outside and turned over the deer food bowls as there was water in them. Don't want mosquitoes to have a place to breed later! I also gathered up all the unused birdhouses and put them in the car. They are going down to the pond. I'm going to wade out to the trees in the flooded meadow and tie them into the trees. I searched around in the greenhouse for long enough straps and put them in the car as well.
I came back up to our room to sit and journal about the day so far. I will work on the window again when my back stops hurting!