Notes From Zone 4

Look at that latch. What a wonderful sight and sound that was. It didn’t take me too long to get her going. Mama’s milk gave her a good boost of energy. I mostly left them alone, but Pearl kept coming over to the corner and stomping for my attention, wanted help. I swear she

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Because we spent the majority of the weekend doing stuff out in the new garden, not much got done in the flower gardens at all. So we went out after work today, really just to do a walk-through because we thought the bugs would be awful, and ended up staying outside for a couple of

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After work tonight, we walked down the driveway. I came home from a business trip this week to find that the power company contractors cleared under the power lines all down the driveway while I was gone. It used to look much more jungle like, with brush often touching the sides of the vehicles as

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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.

We poked our noses out to do a few things in the garden today, but the bugs were bad and it was so hot that we came in after about an hour, I think. I noticed that it’s great mindless stuff for me … I wander around, deadhead and weed, poke and prod. I try

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