Coffee Break

I said I'd come back and post some more gardening pictures, so will do so now, while I'm taking a little break. (Doing some serious cleaning today as we're having a dinner guest tonight...) :)

First, I was having a chat with my sister on the phone, who is married to a farmer. I was describing my 'farm fleet', which I get such a kick out of, and I "think" I "need" each and every one of them. So I took a picture to show her my wagon train. Will put it here too, for a good chuckle.



Here's the completion of our new tiered landscaping area. It is now full of daylilies, and the ground level which shows bare dirt in the picture is now full of sedum ground cover. But I won't show those pictures just yet, as the daylilies were just transplanted recently, and looking less than beautiful! Even if they hadn't just been transplanted, it's getting past the daylily season, so there's nothing really beautiful growing on our 'Little Green Acres' these days. Just a few straggling late daylilies in the original bed. I can't wait for next spring to come!

Taken looking down from our upper deck.

Taken from the ground level looking towards the backyard and new landscaping.


OK, break's over... I'll be back tomorrow and try to make up for lost time since I've been so inactive for the past several weeks. A bientot!

A Little Dear Jane Action

Just finished with 2 more little babies for my Purple Jane in the last day. It was really nice to do two easy ones after a little challenge I was struggling with the last 2 days before these. Remind me to tell you the story of B13. LOL But not tonight, that's subject for a later post, I'm going to hit the hay now. The rain is coming down softly, and will make for an excellent night of sleep.

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Just Popping in for a Moment

Hey friends, I'm going to put out a really short post, just to let you know I haven't given up and abandoned my blog! It's been extremely busy around here the last couple of months. Summers, as many of you know, are too short and precious in the Dakotas. And we have so much we're trying to get down outdoors while we can.

Today we are having a beautiful long and peaceful rain with harmless rumbling thunder. It's wonderful!!! I went out quickly in between rainfalls to quickly stick #14 daylily back in the ground (the poor little thing doesn't even have a name, other than #14)! I had dug her up recently to see what was going on beneath the soil, the same as I did with a few other ones that were looking a bit peaked. Guess what! I am also growing a 'herd' of grubs! So it was off to Lowe's to buy a huge bag of grub killer. I haven't put it down yet, because there is some reconstructive work I want to do on all the existing beds first. This becomes rather farcical as I'm trying to figure out which comes first, the cart or the horse. I need to move stuff out to re-till, and amend the soil, then put down the grub killer (or put it down concurrently with the soil amendments). But each place I think to put them, that place also needs work.

The new landscaping project I posted about last time is done now, or very nearly, the beds are done, but still need to do some steps and paths around it. But it is already full of my new acquisitions from the Daylily Society auction last month. I know, I know, I should have held off buying more until I could cope with what I already have. But that's about like telling me to have willpower when going into a quilt shop! The pictures at the auction were SO beautiful, and the prices are so much better than buying directly or through mail order. So I'm just dealing with it! :)

There is one more new bed on the agenda for this year yet. If that were done, it would make this game of musical chairs with my daylilies a lot easier. But before we can do that, we're waiting for a tiller to arrive which DH has ordered. It seems to be taking forever to get here. The last area he landscaped, he did with shovel and back and elbow grease, but that isn't such a good idea at this stage of our lives, we figured out!!!

I will post a bunch of pictures later of flowers and quilty things. But right now, I'll be content with just one... hope you havea strong stomach. THIS is what I'm dealing with right now.

And I promise, I will be back on strong, and soon!



OK, OK, that wasn't fair. You deserve to have something 'pretty' to look at after that. So I'll post just 3 new daylilies I got at the auction (3 out of 26), and the rest I'll save for another day. Bye for now...

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When I Dream