The day was due to get hot, so Elisha wrote a Group Me text saying “we’ll start early, at 8:30 AM.”

So, they did! Though there were a few stragglers . . .

Planting Peppers

After “shooting the shit,” (“Diarrhea”? I asked having arrived to take a photo), Mere, Marcella (both somewhat distant neighbors) and Boss Lady Elisha get ready to go out to the corner with nine pepper plants.

And here they are, flourishing, the next morning, with Elisha again, out early, to check on the garden. (I notice that she does so twice a day, morning and evening.)

P.S. I had asked, when they were about to go out there with the plants, “Don’t deer like peppers?” The response, from Marcella: “No. Deer are like four-year-olds. Don’t like anything spicy.”

Clearing, and Chipping Piles

I had been complaining about all the piles around here. And Dave took me seriously, more seriously than I could have imagined! Many piles were cleared, and chipped, yesterday, thanks to Ben Hur, his helper Addy, and Dave. Many wheelbarrows worth of piles moved to the chipping area. This one . . .

. . . thank goodness, has now not only been cleared, but seeded with clover!

Meanwhile, Ben Hur and Addy were working on chipping all the sticks in all the piles, to begin to cover newly cleared ground in front of the giant old beloved Maple tree.

Because . . . we want to create some sort of a common space in that wonderfully shady area, for both ourselves and neighbors. A circle of benches? A picnic table with benches? A Little Library with bench for reading?  The dream is there, but has yet to be fleshed in. (Until recently, except for two tiny flower gardens on the outside, it’s just been a space where all sorts of debris collected. I mean, for decades.) I thank Dave, especially, for getting this project going.

The view from the street.

And from the driveway . . .

Hmmm . . . any suggestions as to how to arrange this space, for both ourselves and neighbors?