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lighter:
My sister and I will be making lovely little moss table arrangements for my friend's late H memorial service...... similar to the ones we made for my father's service.

Lighter

It's tying in with saying goodbye to areas of moss we've cared for and cultivated with love.

Google moss table arrangements if you want a feel good moment..... they're very special, imo.

lighter:
My sister got the Preen down just before the rain, so..... that's the moss cared for till decisions are made regarding expanding natural areas.

Lighter

Meh:
I've been watching garden videos almost non-stop for the past 3-4 days. A time waster for sure but what else am I going to do. Mostly I like to watch people do their container gardening combos with things like petunia and coleus or whatever.

My landlord has a yard I pretty much just watch her pull weeds. There are California poppies and irises blooming. Fighting hummingbirds, deer turds, raccoon turds, baby rabbits, bees, one okay rose plant, another neglected unhappy rose plant that probably just needs to be moved and fertilized. Cedar trees that are too large and drop loads of mess on the side of the house. Lots of sedums, couple broken trees from frozen snow the last winter. Columbine, acanthus, day lilly, purple aster, lots of standard things, white daisies everywhere.

There are some Arbutus/Madrona trees or whatever people wanna call em on the property and I would be so inclined to trim off a few of the limbs that are growing in a downwards slant just to make the yard look uplifted and cheerful.

It's odd, the landlord cut out two huge shrubs that were healthy and she left in a tree that is sending out sucker roots underground, pretty sure it's some invasive thing. I looked it up a while back. She keeps the invasive thing that is going to send out runners that go feet out from the tree and send up shoots. She also has irises crowding her rose plant like hundreds of them which she should thin out and give to her next door neighbor who talked to me about how much she likes them. People are just weird in so many ways but who am I to judge.

It's nice but I'd prefer to actually have my own garden. Anyhow I sit and drink tea in the garden sometimes. No traffic noise, lots of birds.

I think I could be content if I had nothing to do but garden for the rest of my life.

Hopalong:
Would you consider asking her if you can garden?
Could be healing.

Meh:
Meh. I've already done some weeding for her but I'm also paying her. Also, I really need to move this rental is cold in the winters and isolated etc. It's kinda dirty and grungy in the lower section of a house. It was only ever meant to be temporary.

It's kind of like how having a rabbit foot keychain isn't the same as having a pet dog.

I washed off the porch with soap and water, cleaned out the recycle and garbage can bins with soap and water. Attempted to 'rake' the cedar tree debris with a dollar store dust pan because why would I have a rake. And washed the doormat with soap. I guess I just have nervous energy and since it's spring I wish things were nicer. She has like 3-4 giant cedar trees growing only 7 feet apart from the house and she never trims the lower limbs, they are growing over her deck so far that I have to hunch over to walk up the stairs and duck below the branches. The next door neighbors actually rake up all the debris and dispose of it on their side of the fence. Doesn't matter. At least I cleaned a little bit.

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