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Planted 5 plants for the butterfly garden. They are supposed to be deer adverse. 🤞 Storms dancing around us, still gave them a good soaking

20+ year house, the AC gave up the ghost this weekend. Zero coolant, oil all over the unit.

Just need to be strong with my stubborn side and quit after an appropriate duration of effort

Rain is back this week. I am okay with it. Gentle rains watering what I planted so far.

Yes and no. Wad barking at me Sunday night, after meds and rest, okay now. Appears the new normal is about 4 hours of shovel time per day.

Garage motion light works great. Have the intensity at 50% and that is bright enough for now. Check something off the to do list

I have a quarter of the total butterfly garden footprint ready to go. Want to get the plants we bought previously into the ground next weekend. Starting small, but trying to keep moving

His house was just off of a state highway with lots of traffic and easy access. We are somewhat isolated up here on the hill, anyone coming up the drive would be coming in blind, but still

Not sure into which thread to dump this, but I replaced driveway light above the main garage door. Tiny light gone, put up 5500 lumen 3 LED motion activated bulbs fixture. Now just need the automated audio "Target acquired, law enforcement notified". About 7 miles from here a guy had his...

PVC and bird netting. Easy peasy critter blockers. Two thumbs up

Oh brother. I am a doofus with too much on my mind. 5 hours into my adventures outside today, work on the new butterfly garden, stuff trimmed up, garden work, and mowing. Mind you, the grass is about 2 feet tall. Because I was out of my usual mowing pattern and the tall grass, I lost track of...

2 beds planted with potatoes (leftover from last season and some new seed potatoes). Another bed planted with sunchokes. Others still a bit wet, but progress.

It was a heavy frost. Only thing up is the asparagus. The flower plants are still potted and in the house.

Frost happened overnight

Garden guru (surprise!, not). It's my connection to my mom and grandparents

Spent 2.5 hours outside after work. Ran the trimmer through another charge, measured out the butterfly garden, dug up some sod to visualize the footprint and mowed what dry ground I could find for a little bit.

Does standing by your garden, sighing, and dreaming of dry weather count as "doing" something in your garden?

Concrete work delayed until early June. Contractor is way backed up. He does think he can get it done in one day

My wife and I go round and round on this. Extremely perishable stuff like dairy, I check. Other stuff not so much