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
