the remaking of a kitchen

every day it seems to be drier here. the paper today said we are 6+ inches below normal. i am thinking i want to transplant some things, but with the dry situation i will wait until we return from nebraska. my reunion is august 29-30 which is a very warm/hot/humid/sultry time to spend time there. but, i digress, i want to plant some of the larger hosta by our fence on the inside and some smaller "ruby" hosta on the outside. the latter seem to grow most anywhere and in any condition.
today the city has been measuring, surveying and putting up flags to mark the location of the new asphalt path that will go from the south entrance to the ct to olg and hence to the library! it will be 2 feet in from the street and 6 feet wide. you can see the red flags if you look carefully, and also perhaps imagine that with the berms along the frontage road there will need to be some serious cuts made to place the path. should be interesting. we are doing a bit of plotting as to whether to lay claim to more of the city's property after the path is completed and do some planting of evergreens on our side of the berm for some noise absorption. we will see what we think when it's done. they mentioned some planting when we went to the original meeting, so maybe we can work together and get what we want.

Labels: asphalt path, berm, dry, hosta

i know it's not really too late for snow, but it feels like it's too late for snow. we have been told to expect 2-4 inches overnight and the possibility of another 1-3 inches tomorrow. then we were told that the snow wouldn't be any closer than about 30 miles south of us. i got a call around 5 from friends about 35 miles south with whom i planned to bead tomorrow. the word was that the snow had started there and we should reschedule for next week. that was a relief as i had begun a fret routine as to whether i should attempt the drive in the morning or not.
it has been spitting snow off and on all day, and toward evening it has been coming down regularly, but not sticking to anything.....just appearing on the ground and deck as if we were receiving rain. just recently though, i noticed that the lawn is getting white. i doubt if we get the previously predicted inches, but the rain is welcome. the lawn and garden will appreciate it. we are still just in the budding phase with trees, a few protected very early bulbs are blooming and some hosta are showing points of leaves above ground. i guess it's lucky that fruit and nut trees are not blooming, and bulbs are later as they might not survive the cold weather we've been having.
all this is reminding me of a few craftsmen at regency shows that occurred on snowy weekends in april. sigh.

Labels: bulbs, hosta, snow