Arrived in the evening. Bert was already here. Stayed on Monday and drove into town on Tuesday morning. Fever and cough, but I powered through it.
- The cub cadet won't start, and it's not the battery. I helped Bert push it up into the trailer so he could drive it into town.
- We have had at least one hard freeze, and all the vegetation is brown.
- In the morning I raked up some pine needles and filled the big wheel barrow with them. I was going to push it down the hill and cover a spot in the Orchard, but I couldn't get up the energy to do it.
- I cut back a bunch of dead canna vegetation and dumped it in the woods. Did some general cleanup in the Star Garden.
- I dug out the morning glory tree in the Star Garden because it is so unruly and the branches lean out into the walking paths. I think I stuck the root ball into the ground somewhere, but I can't remember where since I am writing this a week after I did it. I replaced it with a white-flowering sweetshrub called Venus that has been growing in a shady spot in the Medicine Garden for about two years. It will get more sun, and it has a better growth habit.
- I watered my newly planted Baleria.
- In the afternoon I wheeled the pine needles down to the Orchard and mulched along the grape arbor.
- Several hundred of my daffodils are up and there are already a few paperwhites blooming. The 500 I planted recently will take a while longer before they emerge, new plantings always take a while.
- Grey kitty did not show up all weekend, I feared he was lost or had moved on since we had not gone to Burton throughout the long holiday season. But Bert said he showed up on Tuesday morning after I left to drive in to town.
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