- Invented a new breakfast - scrambled eggs, with fried onions, mushrooms and peppers, rolled into a tortilla. Not bad at all!
- Rented a rototiller from here. We were going to rent it from there, but "there" cost $43 for 4 hours. "Here" cost $44 for 24 hours. Seemed a no-brainer.
- Spike rototilled down the side of the house, where no one can see, and where mice like to go on luxury vacations. We're replacing the grass with a ground cover that doesn't need mowing, and that mice can't hide in. Our mouse-fearing neighbour is pleased.
- Spike also rototilled the vegetable garden.
- Then he came around front and followed my twine-and-brick outline to create a new and improved shape for the front garden. He's a good man, Spike is.
Also today:
- Ripped down Christmas lights on the garage from 1892.
- Pruned a rose bush that had been secretly plotting to take over the world.
- Also chopped back its associate around the corner of the porch, the silently ever-increasing round shrub thingy.
- Discovered 5 more steel poles in random places.
I don't think I've mentioned the steel poles. Apparently, previous owners had a steel pole obsession. They are everywhere, and we keep discovering more (steel poles, not previous owners). One of them will NOT come out of the ground, and looks like a spying periscope. Others are hidden in shrubs and hedges, hoping to destroy you and your hedge clippers when you're not paying attention. One of them was staked to a tree a century or so ago. The tree has now grown around it. The whole thing is getting kind of funny.
And we bought some lawn fertilizer and a weed-digger today too.
Today's Injury: The rose bush fought back, penetrating my leather gardening gloves in several places. Also, some evidence of sunburn in a few places. No flying rake handles.
Oh - ordered a bag of dirt today - it arrives next Monday!
