The Beer Garden

It’s getting toward the end of the season, and gas prices are ‘way down from summer, so we went a bit further afield than usual — all the way to Milford, whee!

Didn’t find any big stuff, but we both did pretty well on small items.  A couple of color-changing novelty tumblers (free handouts at the State Fair from the Insurance Commissioner, but Mr. E said I should’ve picked up more than one, so today I did, at a dime each).  A couple of jigsaw puzzles, a weird oil filter wrench, a small wind chime (I’m a sucker for wind chimes), some pretty seed beads to use in my tatting, a nice pair of star-shaped earrings, that sort of thing.  

I figure we’ll have till about the middle of next month, then no more — except maybe a few orphans — until about mid-April.  It’d be nice to find a decent exercise bike before winter, but I’m not holding my breath. 

Rosebush stump #4 is gonna be a sumgun to get out.  I didn’t expect to be able to do much as it was, so I dug a big hole around it, dumped in a couple of gallons of water to soften up the ground, and still couldn’t budge it, even by solid kicking.  And given the root structure,  Mr. E says pulling it out might not be a good idea, or I might damage the pond liner.

That’s a good point, and if the rain and more water I plan to dump in tomorrow don’t loosen it up either, I may decide to whack off the roots as deep as I can, then plan to hit anything that shows up with the strongest weed-killer I can find.  Given half a chance, that particular rosebush would take over the entire bed, so I don’t dare give it such a chance.

Other than that, I didn’t get a great deal of cleanup done on the rest of the bed.  Which is a bit disappointing, as I’d like to get that one done this fall, so I only have the one around the wisteria (doing fine now I’ve staked it up) and the small pond (which is going to turn into a strawberry bed) to take care of come spring, along with — of course — the vegetable garden.