Thursday, June 30, 2022

Golf Carts Again!!

 Again this past week golf carts have been 
seen on the streets of Felida!   First was the
folks putting out fliers for the Felida 4th of
July gathering.  Second was a lady looking
for her cat.   These are not licensed vehicles
that using the streets and illegal as I informed
the lady looking for her cat.  

Why???   Are folks just lazy or do they not 
know or care?  Heaven forbid one of these 
folks have an accident!   

New Poppies

I decided to get a couple new poppies this
year, one package of red and the other was
mixed colors.    I put the red ones at the 
curb and the mixed in 4 places in the front
yard.  Well the rabbits loved them more
than I did as they sprouted they would eat
them.   I think there are just a few that will
bloom in a shaded area they didn't find.
But the ones at the curb area just awesome!!
To my surprise there is also some orange and
a pretty pink mixed in with the red.   I will 
surely be saving seeds of these!!











 

































Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Clematis Cut Back Time

If you want fall blooms cut them back
and fertilize them!   I started doing ours
today and I'll post photos soon. 

This is what one will get if they cut
them back.  Here is just a month after
cutting them back.













Here is the last Clematis to be cut 
back.






















Wait until you see how well these are doing!!

Saturday, June 25, 2022

6/25/2022 Heat Wave 92 Degrees and Winds

 I will let the photo tell the story of what came
out of the east neighbor's trees.  This will all
have to be vaced up and cleaned before one
can water in this heat.










































So if this is on the ground, you can imagine
what is on the roof and gutters,   I have to keep
Sable's area cleaned and we will see how many
bags this adds up to.

According to the County if neighboring trees
trash your yard, one needs to take them to 
court!!  A letter needs to be sent to them first!

After 3 1/2 hours of work, 9 1/2 bags of pine
junk were taken off the yard, only half done.

Why is it important to remove this,  ANTS!!

6/26/2022

More photos:

























It's even in the lawn, here is what was 
picked up.  Not much grass just pine
junk!!

3 more hours of work to pick up 9 more
bags of pine junk.  Not done yet!!   I even
spent the day on the roof, haven't been up
there in a year.  Plus I shouldn't be up there
but DH can't be there.  He did good to do
the shed and took 2 full buckets out of the 
gutters.   He said he would do the house
gutters if I got the junk to the ends!  He took
off a 1 1/2 pickle buckets on the house
gutters.

Not done at all as I still have flower beds
to vac out.  So you know what I'll be doing
on Monday!

6/27/2022

After 2 hours I took another 6 bags off the 
north flower beds.  I hope to blow the back
beds to the fence, yes it went clear across
the property.  So far the grand total is 49
gallons of pine stuff.   Tues. will be moving
day to get what blew into the pots and what
is behind them.  I sure hope it cools down 
because working in the heat isn't good.
Wed. is the garden area as it's all over in
the veggie beds!  It has to be cleaned before
I can water.


6/28/2022

Today was tackle the driveway and small beds 
by the fence.  I spent the whole day out there
and since the clematis were so full of the junk
I decided to do the summer cut back!!  Hope
fully I'll have some nice blooms this fall.
4 - pickle buckets of junk and I'm not done
yet.  

6/29/2022

Again I cleaned up Sable's gravel area, cut
back the calla lilies to find at the soil just
covered with pine junk, so I did the irises
that were turning yellow to find they too
were covered with pine junk also.  I have
been dumping pots that also has the soil 
covered with pine stuff.  I'll be cutting 
back other garden beds and cleaning them
out.   3 bags full were dumped beside 1
pickle bucket.   

7/1/2022

Today was another day of clean up after
getting the front bed cut back and today
I was able to vac it out.  Then I got the 
area where Allen parks, Sable's area, 
the walkways to the greenhouse and 
out to the shed, the area behind the 
classic and the driveway and street.

I mainly have the garden bed and the 
west flower beds to to but some will 
have to wait until it's cut back.  When 
I got done I had to spray for ants!   I
vac up what I can but it's best to spray
them dead!!

7/5/2022

Yesterday was clean out the bleeding 
heart bed and it was all over the base
of the plants on the north side of the 
house.  I just did a six foot section and
have the more to clean out.

Thursday will be yard recycle day so 
I took this photo before adding more
flowers to top off the bin.  The bin is
about 8 inches from the top.  Still picking
up this stuff out of the yard.


  

















7/7/2022

Again I vac up a full bag off Sable's gravel
area and the north side of the house flower
bed.  More clean up to come as it's still
falling out of their trees.

7/13/2022

Today I again vac up a bag and a half off
Sable's area of gravel.  DH took a full pickle
bucket off the area that surrounds the car
port as that area was totally cover and you
couldn't see the gravel at all.  I also blew
the circle out as this stuff was all over the
roadway.

7/16/2022

Today I was able to get into the brug 
house to start cleaning as the birds 
have flown the nest.  As taking each
eppie down from where they were 
hung, I had to clean out the evergreen
junk that was in each pot.  Can you 
believe I removed 1/3 of a pickle
bucket full from only 12 pots!  Time
to rethink how we open up the brug
house during the summer months.  
I'll have to vac out the brug house
the next time I clean Sable's area.

7/17/2022

Today was my day to cut back the 
front yard hostas and clean out the 
evergreen stuff that has fallen into
them and choked them off.   I'm up 
to 2 full recycle bins of their ever-
green stuff.   We have 3 green hostas
up by the front door area and we have
never had issues with them ever!!
This year the bugs have really had a
hay day with them.  When I cut them
back I found a lot of junk in them and 
I removed 6 pinecones.   






















7/25/2022

I had to clean out Sable's area again and
I also cleaned where DH parks.    I took
3 bags off these areas.  Well over 2 - 54 
gallons.   More to vac up as I clean out 
flower beds and more pots.

8/5/2022

Still removing junk from Neighboring 
trees.  I removed a bag from Sable's area
and then a 3/4 bag from the north fence
line with the evergreen tree that is dying.
You should see all the junk coming out
of their trees!