07 – July 30 - Journal Entry

2006

2006

Can't believe we've been here [in Nevada] nearly a year. So much accomplished, a few disappointments and so much more to look forward to.

• Watered
• Front trees
• Fruit trees
• Veggie Bed
• Little Lilacs
• Bird Bath
• Ficus
• Kitchen Window Plants

While watering pines out front, I noticed that each has its own resident lizard. They looked like some sort of anole Eat bugs, eat bugs and go forth and multiply.

Smooshed a grasshopper.

• DONE – mulch hybrid poplars (2006-07-30 – ½ done; 2006-08-13 Front done)
• DONE – Get rid of dead indoor plants
• Pot up houseplants into dirt
• Clean bird feeders
• DONE – Pick up trash [along fence line] – 2006-07-30
• Put away tree pots
• Build bird houses
• DONE – Make soap [glycerin; not home made, but I did combine the ingredients and set it up in molds]
• Concrete [plant] markers
• Suet pinecones
• kiddie pool to burry for bog garden [at some point I realized I lived in the desert and gave up on the idea of a bog garden]
• Order [driveway] gravel – 2006-08-24 delivered 12 tons $265 [12 tons is nothing; could have used 3 times as much]
• DONE – sow clover and winter rye – clover done 2006-9-3
• [Buy] thick plastic from Wal-Mart
• DONE – Take more photos – 2006-08-06
• Make map
• DONE – Order Garlic – 2006-08-06 due to arr mid September
• Order small river rock
• Dig a compost pit
• Inventory seeds – 2006-09-08 started
• Plant out lilacs
• Russian Sage Cuttings
• Sweet potato cuttings – 2006-08-11 – it's dead
• DONE – Clean bird fountain
• Raspberries for fall planting
• Get site ready for bulbs – 2006-08-20 will use old day lily site [chipmunks and/or mice ate them all]

The list goes on and on. I am currious to see if the daffs survived our brutal summer and if they will return [in] Spring. I hope, I hope