Notes From Zone 4

I’ve got bird feeders above the window boxes on the upstairs balcony, and all sorts of little baby sunflower seedlings have been fighting it out with the annuals I planted in them. For a while, I was pulling them out as I deadheaded the boxes, but at some point, I just quit, and now there

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When we built the screened gazebo, we knew we’d like it. But wow, we really really like it out there. The view of the window boxes, with the flowers draping over, is really spectacular. We’ve taken to sitting out there in the evening with a glass of wine. We can smell the fragrance of the flowers as well, and it’s all just very special. The screening has worked out very well. The mosquitoes and deer flies are really pretty bad, but they don’t bug us at all sitting behind the screens. We bought two Cobble Mountain Hammock chairs, and they are working out really well. We are almost living out here, lately. We love it.

Frank decided that I was too obsessed about the edges where the lawn meets the gravel, and he convinced me to focus instead on the only flower bed I hadn’t yet weeded yet this year, as it was getting away from me. So I hauled an entire trailer load full of weeds from this bed,

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I just never wanted to come inside the house today. The weather was about as perfect as I could ask for, and I hadn’t been out there weeding all week as I was out of town. I was afraid that the weeds would have taken over, and I was right to be worried! Wow, do

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I’ve been gone all week on a business trip, didn’t get home until after two in the morning, so I have no clue why I’m awake at 6:30. Part of it is that I can’t wait to get out into my garden. It was so hot this week and I was gone, so it’s in

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