FishinBC's Blog

Almost there...for now anyway.
May 21, 2007 | 12:30 PM PST
Tags: Birds , Deck , Daylilies , veggies , dogs

What a beautiful weekend!!!  Lot’s of sun, perfect temps and best of all no humidity.

The rest of the daylilies I ordered came Friday night by the UPS man.  The dogs were out front with me when he delivered the flowers. He gave them all a cookie, said he keeps them in his truck because some dogs aren’t very nice to guys that they think are mailmen.  He got a big kick out to the black and white brigade, all three sitting at the same time and looking up at him when they realized he had treats.  He said he wished all dogs were so polite to him!

I got brave and decided to give the dogs their lion cut for the summer.  Left their manes, front leg feathers and tails.  I hate doing it and hate how they look but I know they feel better with all that hair off.

I got busy at 7AM Saturday morning prepping the bed I put the daylilies in.  Put some more mulch around the pond where it was wearing thin from the traffic to the hose bib.  Hubby cut the grass and then we gave everything a good watering. 

The veggie patch is growing, we had our second salad out of the garden and there are loads of maters.  Yummy.  I staked and tied of the green beans and caged the tomatoes that I have in containers because they are starting to get big.  My carrots tops are growing but there isn’t a lot of activity happening under ground.  Is that normal?  Never planted carrots before.  Lot’s of blooms on the bell peppers and a couple of peppers well on their way.

The pond is off and running again.  Everything is coming in great.  The lotus is filling in and the four leaf clover is ALL over.  We had one lily and my hyacinths are making little hyacinths already.  No blooms yet on the cannas but they are growing nicely.  All but one of the 25 cent gold fish dozen made it.  They are growing fast and giving the four big fish a run for their money.  We had zillions of tadpoles a couple of weeks ago but no signs of tadpoles and no little frogs at all.  I think the fish have been eating tadpoles; the new fish sure are growing fast!

After doing some shopping I spent the rest of the afternoon watching the birds between loads of laundry.  The blue jay pair has three fledglings and their wings and beaks are busy keeping their brood fed.  The whole family spent most of the afternoon in the trees near our deck.  I never realized that they would feed their young from my feeders.  I guess I would use any resource I could if I was in their position.  The young were certainly demanding.  I also wonder if they are teaching them to come to the feeders.  I guess that is possible.  The cat birds are actually visiting my feeders as well.  That is a first, normally I see them down in the blackberries but they have never come to the deck before.  The rest were the usual crowd.

Sunday afternoon we started in on sanding the deck and prepping for re-staining.  I am very sore this morning but the hard work will pay off.  Just a bit more sanding to finish and we will be ready to stain.  I am taking Thursday and Friday off this week and will start on the lower deck.  Hubby is off Friday and will help finish up then.  Other than the decks and the shed cleaning, which still needs to be done, I think we are almost ready to take a break from all the work and finally sit and enjoy the fruits of our labor.