We babysat Wes and Oliver for the weekend. We played pirate ship and rocket ship, we swam, we drove around in the cadet, we played in the fort, I threw them into piles of pillows, we played with squirt guns, and other amusements. Their folks picked them up about 3:30.
- I didn't do much around the place because of my boys. But I managed to sow a package of Blue Lake green beans in the Vegetable Garden - it's cutting it close to the first freeze, but I will hope for the best. The beans I sowed last weekend have all popped up.
- Jeff and Amy stopped by in their tractor to pick up their bales of prairie hay. The man that sold them to us left their bales with me because they were stuck out of town due to the Houston flooding related to hurricane Harvey.
- I had Bert mow a large area of my prairie before the seed in the crab grass was ripe. Bert and I unwrapped both of the bales I bought and rolled them down the hill. He took the boys inside and I spread hay for about an hour - a drop in the ocean of what needs to be done. The crab grass has taken over - the land was cleared so late in the summer that nothing else was going to sprout except crab grass. It will be many years before I have it under control, unfortunately. After the boys left I went back outside and sprayed herbicide over some large areas of the tall crab grass that Bert had not mowed. That's not an ideal plan of attack, but if all that crab grass seed matures I will never get it under control So whatever I had growing amongst the crab grass, it's a goner as well.
- Sprayed the Vegetable Garden paths with herbicide.
- I have lots and lots of Painted Lady butterflies in the garden right now. They love the ageratum. And there are several Monarchs that are in the garden. I have a lot of butterfly weed growing just for them, so it's gratifying to see the pretty Monarch butterflies.
- Bert left about 5:00 and went home to Houston since Cosmo was home alone. I stayed and drove in to work on Monday morning.
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