bits and pieces

Too much to catch up on all at once.  Bought a house November 2009, moved January 2010, and here it is May 15, but I have been busy.  Had new gates put on backyard fence and now Zander and Mitzi can go outside.  Zander ran out the front door once and returned within an hour, and Mitzi almost made it over the back fence (6 ft, wood) twice, but I caught her and now watch her like a hawk.  They are getting used to all the smells of our plants, the various areas of yard, the hose, the house itself, etc.  And Mitzi seems less prone to scaling the fence, but …. . 

I’ve gone to two native plant sales and a couple of lectures and will try to have a grassless back yard and do without fertilizer per se in the front yard too. The soils are terrible, but I have a number of bags of organic conditioners and will eventually get the yard in shape.  Key word: eventually.

Of course, other events have taken place since I last wrote on this site, not the least of which was my first (and probably only now that I have a house) trip to Europe last May.  Photos and blurb on that another time.