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.