Entry tags:
(garden, critter watch, observe, f&f, mom and caa)
Sunday - watched the stilt grass smolder as i tried to burn it, but got several beds weeded and repaired. Trimmed out sections of the deer fence where i'd ripped it up with the powerful string trimmer some time back. Noted the MANY places where there were smaller holes.
Rabbit sign: full resolution image after link for exploring.
That's a rare tulip poplar leaf that has color instead of just looking black and shrunken.
By the time i had my late lunch and cleaned up, it was time to head to my parents' to take my mom to a holiday light show. I made cocoa, Christine prepped cream cheese sandwiches on English muffins, and i fixed up head bands with metallic curling ribbon. The drug store had no festive necklaces or pins or hats or hair bows, so make-my-own was where i was at.
I arrived at Mom and Dad's to find Dad's stress levels through the roof, Mom's cognition very fuzzy. Mom was sundowning and didn't want to go. In the end, we had the little picnic in the living room, and the cocoa seemed to calm my Dad down. It was a good visit, although i certainly had mixed feelings.
Monday:
Rabbit fence research: rabbits can chew through chicken wire as well as my plastic deer fencing. I'm looking at:
Then i can use the deer fencing for the height. So far, only one older fawn has made it in. (That fawn threw itself at the fencing and loosened one corner T-post from its clay anchor. Not sure what i am going to do to fix the corner. Probably just move it a bit. I dread pounding the posts back in when it's not been weeks and weeks of rain....)
I dropped everything for morning rituals - the alarm app never went off. I guess i will just try my phone, as unreliability is not helpful. I got distracted after breakfast shelling lima beans that had been caught by the frosts, when my sister contacted me saying our morning plans were dashed due to her builder's need to talk to her. I still went over to visit, then drove to the farm stand in Durham that i was scouting as a festive place to go with Mom or Christine. It failed to meet either set of criteria. And at over half an hour away, not close enough for general visits either.
I've been sort of out of it all afternoon, i'm not sure what i did -- read the news, poked at email. Before dinner Christine was able to wrest the blinds out if the "invisible" brackets and i was then able to mostly fix the pull chain. I need an uninterrupted loop and instead have a loop joined by one of those cylindrical clamps that link ball chains.
My sister has messaged to note it's the third anniversary of Mom's stroke. It's possible that's why i feel so uninspired to do anything. The twice disappointed plans didn't help, even when i note that in both cases i had a better visit than i would have had with the plans.
Rabbit sign: full resolution image after link for exploring.
That's a rare tulip poplar leaf that has color instead of just looking black and shrunken.
By the time i had my late lunch and cleaned up, it was time to head to my parents' to take my mom to a holiday light show. I made cocoa, Christine prepped cream cheese sandwiches on English muffins, and i fixed up head bands with metallic curling ribbon. The drug store had no festive necklaces or pins or hats or hair bows, so make-my-own was where i was at.
I arrived at Mom and Dad's to find Dad's stress levels through the roof, Mom's cognition very fuzzy. Mom was sundowning and didn't want to go. In the end, we had the little picnic in the living room, and the cocoa seemed to calm my Dad down. It was a good visit, although i certainly had mixed feelings.
Monday:
Rabbit fence research: rabbits can chew through chicken wire as well as my plastic deer fencing. I'm looking at:
GARDEN CRAFT 50-ft x 2.3-ft Gray Steel Welded Wire Garden Welded Wire Rolled Fencing
Then i can use the deer fencing for the height. So far, only one older fawn has made it in. (That fawn threw itself at the fencing and loosened one corner T-post from its clay anchor. Not sure what i am going to do to fix the corner. Probably just move it a bit. I dread pounding the posts back in when it's not been weeks and weeks of rain....)
I dropped everything for morning rituals - the alarm app never went off. I guess i will just try my phone, as unreliability is not helpful. I got distracted after breakfast shelling lima beans that had been caught by the frosts, when my sister contacted me saying our morning plans were dashed due to her builder's need to talk to her. I still went over to visit, then drove to the farm stand in Durham that i was scouting as a festive place to go with Mom or Christine. It failed to meet either set of criteria. And at over half an hour away, not close enough for general visits either.
I've been sort of out of it all afternoon, i'm not sure what i did -- read the news, poked at email. Before dinner Christine was able to wrest the blinds out if the "invisible" brackets and i was then able to mostly fix the pull chain. I need an uninterrupted loop and instead have a loop joined by one of those cylindrical clamps that link ball chains.
My sister has messaged to note it's the third anniversary of Mom's stroke. It's possible that's why i feel so uninspired to do anything. The twice disappointed plans didn't help, even when i note that in both cases i had a better visit than i would have had with the plans.