Dude, who even knows.
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Okay, didn’t have initiative for… initiatives, but the non-disorder anxiety let me take action against things annoying me in my direct line of sight, and then things I can see from there, so I tidied up the front room some and did a round of weeding to catch the stuff that last rain brought.
At one point an old blackberry rhizome put up its first shoot in a while, I got it with the mattock but just swinging that thing tangibly decreased my mental/spiritual initiative, which was interesting.
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Got a new mattock with a longer composite handle and boy does it chop what remains of that downhill bamboo better than that old wood-handled cultivator mattock (whose handle dried and split), but I’ve still got some pectoral muscle tweaks from all that mulch pitching to rest off before I swing it more.
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Starting to suspect that the injunction against tree-base mulch piles being right against the trunk is really that the portion of trunk buried in mulch will stop acting like tree, with thick bark keeping outside out, and more like root, creating permeable interface, and that’s fine in its own right but when the mulch rots down and that’s exposed to the open again it invites disease
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Okay, today I got up early (cause setting my alarm ain’t no thang anymore) to talk to a landscaper about tilling up and leveling the lower backyard, then I finished distributing the last of the medium hemlock mulch, went back to the landscaping yard and got half a yard of bark nuggets, distributed them as a durable top layer around trees, and assembled maybe half the weight bench before it got too dark
Okay, today was rained in a while but outside of that did most of the last half-yard of mulch, some more ditch digging, and before it knocked out a petty fetch quest that had been on my to-do list for a while and arranged for a landscaper to come by tomorrow to talk over regrading my lower backyard.
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Alright there was some medium-light rain – we’d had some drizzling when the air was thick with soot but this is the first real moisture since the real rainy season stopped, nothing like this last year – but the landscaping yard’s closed Sunday (well, only open in the morning for professional crews coming in to worksites) so no work planned to interrupt.
So, I started extending the ditch along the other edge of Strawberry Ridge – not digging it as deep, this is next to the trail and I don’t want anyone to step in and twist an ankle.
Also I prepared to stake retaining wire grid over part of the back retaining wall of Blueberry Hill and prepared some coconut coir to place there to try to hold on to any moisture that way, also I set up a weight bench and plate rack in the lower backyard, that’s gonna replace the basement for my weight stuff.
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Okay, another yard of medium hemlock mulch put in, now just another half-yard and then a half-yard of bark nuggets as a durable top cover around the tree bases.
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Yeah, still preparing the backyard. Gotta:
- Chop up and compress down the last loose twig-end branches into what’s kinda a wood shrapnel to use as a top layer in filling in the Blueberry Hill “dugout”
- Drag my weight bench up from the basement, the weights are already out there.
- Smash up some broken ceramic flowerpots onto chips to mix into soil to adjust drainage
- Dig up every bit of a clover before it starts flowering, pitch the pulled stuff in a bucket, fill it with water overnight, tomorrow use the wet cleaned green debris to build the ramp into the Blueberry Hill dugout and dump the muddy water into the sandy ditch so it deposits and starts solidifying
- Mow the grass, dump the clippings on Blueberry Hill wood fill
And then after it’s photographed still
- Transplant annuals into pots from beds that’ll be redone away
- Split some wood that’s drying cracked for firewood
- Assemble a wood rack
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Turns out I have bought a deadly weapon that was only euphemistically being sold as a grass sickle on Amazon
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