Last Thursday’s Community Dinner featured a full patio! Plus lots of great food and the new yurt as partially hidden backdrop with old barn lurking behind.

Saturday’s Morning Work Party, first priority: get the chips off the road! After waiting for what, six months, we finally got our longed for chip drop. That’s Marita and son Nicolas bottom left. Luckily, the driver managed to avoid the little poppies from which neighbor Carisa had casually tossed seeds.

 

Some of the new chips we put on the paths of Joseph’s fairy garden, where the elderberry bush is now flowering.

And Marita borrowed neighbor Dave’s trusty (horribly noisy and effective) weed whacker to get the path between the mess that we’re going to get out of here next Saturday and (what used to be the) pond visible, and walkable, again.

Here she is just starting out. Later, voila! (Second shot from a greater distance.)

Marita has already spent one night in the yurt, and is about to spend another. But first, she wants to get air flow figured out. Up through the bottom . . .

. . . out through the top.

New flowering the last few days on back patio.

PlantNet ID tells me it’s garden loosestrife, and we have to watch out, because it’s invasive.

Even so . . .

https://www.herbal-supplement-resource.com/yellow-loosestrife-herb-benefits.html