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Time to face the heat

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It’s almost 9 pm and I’m gearing up to go outside and begin watering my garden.

It’s been a very hot day. It’s finally dropped down to 30 Celsius (86 F) but with humidity it’s still 36 Celsius (96.8). Wish me luck!

I didn’t water yesterday even though it’d been hot all day. We’d watered really well on Sunday evening. I figured I could let it go a day, even a hot day, but I certainly can’t let it go for two days when it’s this unbearably warm outside!

The one good thing about going out at this time is that my elderly stalker hopefully won’t notice me. If she does she’ll come and stare at me while I water. The staring isn’t so bad it’s when she talks and I can’t hear her so I have to keep stopping what I’m doing just to find out that she asked if today was Tuesday or to say “no rain, no rain” again for the third time that day.

She watched Chris and I all day Sunday when we were out getting work done in the garden. I just get irritated when I’m stared at for hours on end. Of course I then end up taking it out on my husband when he’s not who I’m mad at all.

With any luck none of my neighbors will be out and I can get the watering done and be back inside within an hour and a half at the most!

Anyone else having a heat wave?






I can’t catch up with the garden work

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I’m so behind in my garden work. I think I’ll finally have the summer work finished when autumn hits.

As I’ve said before I just haven’t been feeling well enough to get into the garden daily, sometimes not even once a week. I almost don’t dare walk in the garden as I see all the work that needs to be done and if I’m not up to doing it, it tears at me.

On Sunday we got some work done in the garden. My husband was out weeding the front boulevard flowerbed and he put up these 1.5 foot by 1.5 foot bamboo type fence things in front of the flowerbed where it meets the sidewalk. It looks good.

Over the last two weeks in my two or so garden work visits I’ve managed to plant all the roses that I purchased in June, one honeysuckle – why did I buy two? I’ve already got a dropmore!, a hydrangea, and two clematis vines.

We had purchased three new passion flower vines. Those I did not plant. I kept them in the containers they came in and placed them where I could make the vines grow on an object (bird feeder pole) or fence. I have to bring the passion flower vines and other tropical plants indoors once it gets cool so there’s no point in planting them.

We still need to put down the composted soil that we recovered from our composter a couple of months ago, and we haven’t even put mulch down on the flowerbeds yet. See I’m behind.

Are you behind in your garden work too?

Blogging from the Garden

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I’m finally able to do something that I’ve wanted to do every since I started my beautiful back yard garden in the spring of 2002. I now have the ability to bring my computer outside and sit in the garden as I work on my computer, websites and while answering e-mail.

Yes, that’s right folks, I’ve finally joined the ranks of laptop owners!

ready to blog

I took this photo last night after I brought my new laptop, aptly named Tricia’s Toy, outside for it’s first visit to the garden.

leafy growth that you see to the right of the patio table is that rose, Antique ’89, that I nicknamed the monster in one of my earlier posts. The monster has one cane that must be approaching 16 or more feet tall. It’s huge and it’s thorny! I have my scars from my battle with her a month ago.

So now, while the weather is nice, I’ll be posting to this site live from my garden Internet cafe. I’m hoping to be inspired!

Oh yes, I also got another new toy last week. I bought a Sony Cybershot DSC-H5 and I’m loving it so far. The quality of the photos that I’ll be posting to my sites will likely improve substantially. If you want to see the latest photos as I take them feel free to visit my flickr site.

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