It got real cold on Thursday night and a breeze started up. When my general helper arrived, we decided it was too cold to go out right away. My helper friend had also arrived so I got him to take the book boxes up to the new attic. We also brought down some other boxes and a lot of bags that needed gone through.
Some were just bills and receipts and most were the portfolio for each year of my son’s homeschooling. We got 3 bags done by 9AM and the sun had come out.
We thought starting with the East Shed garden would give us sun and protect us from the wind. The 7 Sisters rose had a huge amount of dead wood in it, in addition to 2 robin’s nests. It stuck way out into the walking areas.
I took that end of the garden and my helper started at the other one. I took 2 huge sleds of prunings off the rose.
Then I wound the long canes into the trellis. There are not a lot of canes left. I hope it recovers next year.
We got the garden cleaned out, and put the last 2 plants, Sweet William, in the little garden by the Tonka garage. A lot of plants had died, either from the weeds or the drought: Siberian wallflower, Sweet William, columbine, a lot of the evening primrose.
My helper friend had done the last foliar of the year and had some time left so he roughed out the weeds in the Old North garden. When my helper and I finished the East Shed, we went and finished the Old North pretty quickly.
But we were now in the wind tunnel between buildings and I got chilled, so I quit when we finished. My general helper got started on the next garden.
She was digging out the anemones that had taken over this garden. Those tiny roots are hard to get all of so she didn’t make the progress she hoped.
I had a BuyNothing pickup, and the contractor came. He plans to start on Monday. I made French toast for supper and watched videos until bedtime.
On Saturday there are more BuyNothing pickups, and I have transcription of the last 2 episodes of Remedy to get done and sent off to people. It’s to be cold again on Friday night, so I won’t be in a hurry to get outside, particularly as I will be working on the north side in the wind tunnel. I may work on the bags some more.