Early Morning Cleanup: FOTD for Oct 2, 2023

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Since I went to bed about 5 or 6 hours earlier than usual last night, I woke up very early this morning, and my spoiled animals, hearing I had arisen, decided they needed to be fed 3 hours earlier than usual. Once outside and with no sun to be leery of, I started deadheading plants and pretty soon it was 3 hours later and half my garden was on the ground.  Well, perhaps 1/1000th, but still that was a considerable amount.  And my front garden looked very pretty indeed.  Pasiano evidently hadn’t been watering the planters on the wall and a lot of the plants were dead or so dried out that I pulled them out and replanted them from other planters. Then I got busy cutting off palm fronds with dried-up tips and other plants that had gotten leggy and the result is what you see here. The latter photos show plant litter on the ground which I left as a gift for Paciano to bag up tomorrow. It also give me a chance to show off my hard work to him.

 

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After working, I jumped in the pool to do morning exercises  and even though the pool was coolish, I was so hot and sweaty that it felt good.  But, I noticed that all of the plants around the pool needed deadheading and dried ends removed so ended up spending another hour or so tending to them.  No photos, though plenty of plant refuse tossed up on the terrace for Pasiano to deal with.  I also pulled lots of grass from around the sidewalks and between stones. I’m going to need a manicure, though. Luckily I have one scheduled in two days.

 

 

For Cee’s FOTD prompt.

18 thoughts on “Early Morning Cleanup: FOTD for Oct 2, 2023”

  3. SAM VOELKER's avatarSAM VOELKER

    So Beautiful Judy~! It makes me want to go out and throw rocks at what used to be my garden… Believe me, I have a lot of rocks to throw and no Pasiano to pick them up.

    Your place is truly an “Arcadia” created not only by nature, but with the good taste artistic talent, and knowledge of balance that you show in so many things that you do.

    This beauty shows an interest in each venue with a natural balance, created even in the eclectic “object de art” collections. Each photo is more than a “still life”, showing much more than that because tomorrow with flowers blooming, that scene will once again change and you will then have another beautiful balanced, yet different view. A work of art and the talent of making nature work for you that I envy.

    Thanks for making my day, now I must go outside and pick up a few broken branches and out-of-place rocks, “clip clip, cut, cut, chop chop”, hoping nature will take over and help give me back MY terrible-looking yard.
    SAM

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      1. SAM VOELKER's avatarSAM VOELKER

        No way~! I have taken photos only to be able to show later, of what it was like, when I finally get things fixed again, it would be embarrassing to show them now. I had trees with hanging branches over the Koi pond which dropped too many leaves into the pond, now the pond is dry and cleaned out, I will add lilies to the riparian area and the overhang has been removed, and I have enough fire wood to burn in one of my three fireplaces plus a yard fire if I want one to have a couchon de lait. I also told my son to come load his truck with firewood laying all over the ground so I would not have to stack it and he said “it is too hot to build a fire”~! Dumb “50 year old kid” will not get that wood after it is stacked in a neat place~!

        Looking forward to Thanksgiving when we have enough good oak wood to slowly roast a pig over an open fire~! Something we did every fall over the years.

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  7. Marilyn Armstrong's avatarMarilyn Armstrong

    My plants need work too, but this is the end of the season, so I think they will just get their semi-annual cut down and clean up. If next year we aren’t living in mud, maybe I can think about actually planting something. Your enterprise is impressive.

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