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Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: lighter on May 22, 2021, 12:58:10 PM ---I wish I'd spent more time working in the yard before heat and bugs of summer, but hey....the renovation came first.
There's debris all over the moss... I need to blow it when things are damp.
I've decided to ask 2 of my neighbors, yes, both married, for help. Their wives volunteered them....both wives wear the pants. I deserve support and help too. I'm asking, bc I provide the trail they all enjoy. It's OK for me to ask for help that's being offered. It's OKfor me to accept help. This is hard for me..... I realize I'm not used to asking for help. I'm working on it.... it IS complex, IME.
When it;s time to open the trail back up , I'll likely allow just the people who helped. I don't have to allow everyone who likes using it. This break has forced them to find another way to the trails.... I hope they'll continue using it.
YG can go through the Cowboy's yard..... he doesn't have to go through mine, even though he has. I haven't seen him once in a couple weeks. I hope we can be super distanced BUT somewhat normal when we see each other again. IT IS HIS stuff. Nothing to do with me.
I'm full of energy today. Happy to plan things in yard. Will send e mails to husbands and wives..... looking forward to getting bigger projects done! Woo hoo.
Lighter
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Was really glad to read this, Lighter - yes, you know asking for help feels difficult but yes, you know it's also okay. Good for you. YG can absolutely go elsewhere good, I love the fact that you're feeling able to allow only the people you want in. It's a good rule in life, isn't it? I hope the energy continues :)
Hi Mouse! I'm hoping you can find a garden buddy scheme. They do things here where they pair up volunteers with older or disabled people who can't manage their gardens alone and I hear so many nice stories about people helping each other out. One really nice one about an elderly lady who misses cooking roast dinners now her husband's passed, so she does one for the guy that's doing the gardening and that makes them both happy :) I hope you can find someone, you have such a talent for that sort of thing, it would be amazing for you to transform a space for someone.
lighter:
Well....I thought I might not get frog eggs in my water catch containers this year, but.....
I found THREE containers have eggs today!
Last year it was ONE container and SO MANY LITTLE GREEN FROGS! So magical.... like faeries.
This year I have neighbors stopping by to scoop up clear goopy slime with what looks like fat, dark mosquito larvae that aren't moving.
Last time they were scooping up swimming tadpoles in a little net.
We'll get to see the entire process.
I plan to let the tadpoles fend for themselves this time. Last time I fed them then documented everything I could. You have no idea what a tadpole really looks like, up close. Nothing like you'd think, I'll wager. Lovely purples and brown patterns.....brigh green spinach clearly visible in the coils of their stomachs.
So cool.
Lighter
Meh:
Aww, very cute about the frog farming! No, I've never looked at a tadpole that closely. They must all be different depending on the species, the only one's I've seen as a kid were very small and black.
lighter:
They're amazing up close, Mouse. In certain light they're translucent with little bones and digestion visible.
lighter:
The hemlocks need treatment for wooly adelgid (sp?) again.
So many hemlocks. Measuring every trunk. Mixing and pouring poison into trenches cleared and dug around each tree.
Love the hemlocks.
Lighter
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