Still no rain. Came up on Thursday evening.
- Watered plants. It's a fight for survival. Everything is so dry.
- Sprayed herbicide on the driveway, in the Vegetable Garden, in the Rose Garden, and the Orchard.
- Fertilized lots of plants including the veggies, the Blue Mist Flowers, the Nicotiana, the Rudbeckia Maxima, the Tansy, the Butterfly Pea Vine, the Lavender, the Oakleaf Hydrangea, the Red Turk's Cap, the Barbados Cherries, the Pine Cone Gingers in the Shade Garden.
- Cleaned the oven.
- Cleaned the bathrooms.
- Cleaned the ceiling fans in the bedrooms.
- Poured orange oil and water in the Veggie Beds.
- Weeded, weeded, weeded.
- Sowed Lady in Red Salvia seeds and some Colorado Yarrow seeds in various beds in preparation for fall.
- Moved some Butterfly Weed seedlings that self sowed in all the wrong places.
- Saturday night we went with the neighbors to the street fair in Brenham. There was a live band, and they closed off the streets. Everyone brings chairs and hangs out. It was lots of fun. Kids, dogs, etc. Everyone is really friendly. Small town Saturday night.
- Deadheaded zinnias.
- Moved a Salvia that wasn't thriving in the place where it was planted.
- Cleaned up the Greenhouse. It gets pretty dirty in there, lots of dirt and mouse poop.
- Raked the paths around the Greenhouse.
- Swam in the pool everyday for hours.
- Watched the birds for hours as they bathed and ate bird seed. Painted Buntings, Bluebirds, Tit Mouses, Cardinals, Chickadees, Hummingbirds, Woodpeckers. All so pretty.
- Took long walks in the mornings.
- Watched some deer drinking out of the bird bath. One of them was a young male with little antlers.
- Ate lots of arugula from the garden. Picked some peppers and eggplants.
- Spread mulch in the Daffodil Bed. Trying to deter the armadillos! They keep turning up my bulbs.
- Cleaned the bird baths.
Still no rain. Came up on Thursday evening.
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