1/18/2024 0 Comments Susan branch blotter calendar![]() You can sort of see a line between old turf and new-grown clover on the right. Joe made it his project this year to get rid of the ivy and seed the area with clover. It was ivy, which had begun taking over the back yard. See the dirt? Well, it used to go this entire length down next to the bushes. but when the flowers turn brown, you can mow it! A LOT less mowing than a regular lawn because it doesn’t get tall. It’s more casual than a regular lawn, and looks like a field of wildflowers. There are pros and cons for every kind of green thing growing, but if planting a clover lawn sounds interesting to you, you can read about it here. ![]() I have learned to love clover almost as much as the bees do! Look how cute! Wildflowers. One thing about the humidity and rain, it kept everything green and the Rose of Sharon was in its element! I just went out to check on the tomatoes, picked flowers and ran them back to the air conditioning to put in little vases on the shelf over my kitchen sink. We spent some nice time working out there in June, but for me, after that, other things got in the way ~ first it was too hot, and secondly, the tick bite had me doing a lot of sleeping. The garden did a good job mostly on its own. This is why it’s so hard to lose an animal, they know everything and love us anyway! □ It’s still nighttime, so quiet and chirping with crickets, the rest of the island is asleep, and I’m outside nurking around, feeling sorry for them for missing this, with only Jack as my witness. it’s like a painting, the way the light falls on the Adirondack chairs! iPhones have such good cameras in them now! Slats on the lawn, slats slicing the picnic table under the arbor, affectionally known as “the Teahouse of the Vineyard Moon” so named by the Bowditch family who lived here before us and built the arbor. □□ I’m being followed by a moon shadow, moon shadow, moon shadow. the moon was so bright it woke me up! So we came downstairs ~ it was just past 4:30 am and while the water was boiling for tea, I took the camera outside to catch the moon shadows, which followed me everywhere! That’s a rose trellis over the back screen leaving that slatted shadow on the walls around Jack. Īnd that last “Blue Moon” in August was pure magic. rose hips wild asters, and flaming mushrooms. īits of color are starting to show up in the woods. Lately we’re seeing the signs of change on the road. 2.5 miles a day adds some good steppage to the watch □□♂️. SO interesting, so sad, you get to know and care about the characters, we loved it.Īs we walk, we point out the interesting stuff to each other! No words necessary, the pointing finger is enough! Probably tick landed on me one windy day, took a bite, noticed lack of sweetness, recognized his mistake, and jumped off, but too late for me! We just finished listening to this, Dead Wake, the story of the last crossing of the Lusitania, filled with fascinating history of the times, 1915, New York, President Wilson and his frame of mind, old letters, ship captains, German submarines, passengers, Prime ministers, spies, and WWI. ![]() One Air Pod in Joe’s ear, one in mine, so we get to hear the same book. □Īnd while we walk, we listen to books on my phone. But through most of it, when we could, we walked. May was gorgeous, June was gorgeous, July turned out to be August, hot, humid, hell on earth, August was mostly gorgeous, September has reverted to August, last 5 days have been the WORST. Now I get to think of myself as quite the little trooper, rather than the do-nothing person I thought I had been. However, writing this Willard was good, I thought I had done NOTHING all summer, but that is not true. Tomorrow I go for my follow-up blood test to make sure it’s all gone, but I feel great now, although it stole July and most of August. but finally my smart doctor asked if I had been tested for a tick bite, □ and sure enough, I had Babesiosis - a little bug in tick spit (I assume) that gets into your red blood cells, but not Lyme, thank goodness. Been forever, I know it! I was bitten by a tick! I never saw it, never felt it, didn’t know why I felt so TERRIBLE, chills and fever, aches and pains, down for the count, and even though I did go to the emergency room when it started to get out of control, I didn’t get diagnosed until I started feeling better.
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