YAHOOWA!!! It has been raining all morning~~and probably most of overnight~~and there are severe weather warnings poping up like toast from a toaster. But I felt the need to scale the hill and have a peep at the Dogwood and Redbud. You'll recall they were chewed off some weeks ago by marauding beavers. G's mom kept insisting that they might make a comeback. I had left the 6" stumps standing in the hopes that they might but I was doubtful. I'll be a monkey's uncle!! I need to buy some hardware cloth [ HAPPY DANCE!!!] both trees have little teeny tiny sprouts on the side!! Yippee!! Hardware cloth is used to create a physical barrier to keep the beavers at bay in the future.
For the first time since we've lived here, going on 20 years, I completely weeded and mulched along the fenceline earlier this week. I am so weary of the city weedwhacking my rosebushes I thought maybe if I keep the grass and weeds completely cleaned up they will cut me some slack. Leave the roses, guys! People LIKE my roses. They comment positively on my roses as they use the walkway to get to the creek. Yay roses :) The fenceline belongs to the city. They send a crew of workers out twice a season to weed whack along the fence. Curiously, their weed whacker always winds up at the top of the fence "pruning" my roses. Let there be an 11th Commandement: Thou shalt not weed whack the rosebushes!!
Oh. I guess my Pansies are now groundhog poop. I had a pot of the prettiest purple Pansies. As I left for work the other morning I noticed that something had chewed off every single bloom. :( Somedays it just doesn't pay to break out the shovel and hoe ;)
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