Me and my honey. Drove Max to school then went to Burton for four days.
Thursday Bert was stung by wasps and had a bad allergic reaction. Went to the emergency room. IV, two epi shots, and a benedryl shot. Four hours later we were on our way home with an EpiPen prescription.
Swam every day and drank lots of beer!
Weeded everywhere.
Read Keith Richards autobiography.
Watered the roses deeply over a two day period with the hose. Fertilized with liquid fertilizer until I ran out.
Saturday I drove to the antique Rose Emporium. That was a waste of gasoline. Everything was crispy. I was hoping to buy some parsley, but their herbs looked bad. I bought some zinnia seeds to fill out some places that are bare. Stopped at the grocery on the way back and bought some canning jars for the honey.
Watered everything well.
Picked tomatoes and cucumbers. Made a tomato, cucumber, and onion salad with everything from my garden including the garlic and thyme. Made several tomato tarts - I have so many tomatoes!
Almost stepped on a snake, it was just an ole hog nose, but they get your heart pumping nevertheless.
Sprayed herbicide in the Orchard, the Rose Garden, and the driveway.
Pulled up the chicken wire in the bed with all the Erlicheer daffodils. Too difficult to weed. I'll just have to deal with the armadillos.
Erected a small metal arbor in the Orchard for the morning glories to climb.
Harvested some more honey. That took about four hours. Six 12 ounce jars of honey. What am I going to do with all that honey?
Cleaned the house.
On Sunday Bert disassembled the bed in the master bedroom and we hauled it home. Now that Max is away at school we are going to move his king sized bed into the master bedroom in Houston, move our queen size bed to Burton, and move the double bed in Burton into Max's bedroom. Now that we do not need to keep a refrigerator full of Gatorade and bottled water in Houston, we are also moving the refrigerator from the house in Houston to the house in Burton.
Picked all the corn, ate some of it for dinner Saturday night. I'm going to grate the rest of it and freeze it.
Planted the zinnia seeds - Raggedy Ann Cactus, Little Lion, and Cut and Come Again - in the Grass Garden and the Star Garden.
Raked paths clear of debris in the Greenhouse Garden and the path from the house to the boardwalk. They look better.
Bert made a really neat metal sculpture painted in a variety of blue colors. It is situated in a flower bed that I made but have never really put to use - too far from the water source, another example of poor planning on my part.
Lots of cow manure around the place. No sign of the cow. Must have found it's way back to the pasture from whence it came.
Spotted a blue bird on Saturday. Lots of Painted Buntings. And a Blue Jay, although a common sight in some places it is rare in Burton.
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