The Beer Garden

After the Friday Goat Visit, everything I thought about posting yesterday seemed rather dull, even anti-climactic … but something that unusual, by definition, doesn’t happen every day, so back to the ordinary.  At least my strawberry plants should be safe after today, when his owner said they’ll be putting up a higher, and electrified, fence!

I’ve started prepping the flower beds for next year, when I’m planning to plant evergreen ground cover (preferably something with spring/summer flowers that’s very good at choking out weeds!), since with all the time we spend out at the flying field, I can’t keep up with them and the veggie garden both.  Suggestions for Zone 7 that meet those criteria would be extremely welcome!

The little hill we built up around the small pond is going to be turned into all-strawberries — not very weed-resistant, of course, but I’m a sucker for fresh strawberries, or at least fresh-frozen, and I’m hoping that will give me plenty for the winter, along with my blackberries.  I’m not sure how long it’ll take the blueberries I planted this spring to start bearing, but eventually I’ll have those, too.

And, assuming I can find plans within my skill level, I want to make an around-the-tree bench for the maple tree out back.  I’m getting tired of having to move the standard bench every time I want to sit in the shade!

Back to skeining and dyeing some of the crochet cotton I got at a yard sale yesterday, then back to sewing what trim I’ve finished onto two more T-shirts.  I’ll be kind of glad when I get them all done, ‘cause I’d really like to do some tatting with beads, which just wouldn’t look right on T-shirts!  So that’ll likely go for Christmas ornaments to donate to the Senior Center’s craft sale in November.