Update...Hot And Tired

The porch has been emptied of all that does not belong.  I have a bench Dad made me out of hand cut barn timber on one side with an old metal egg basket full of pine cones and Ki's bed underneath.  On the other side is my chainsaw chair from hubby with a forked log table made by Melissa, my oldest.  It is topped with a smashed bucket used for trash.  The second fork of the table is used for my drink when I am sitting.  I know it's not Home and Garden but it's me.

Well, I haven't sat down much today.  I worked outside again until the heat ran me in but I am declaring the porch finished.

The corner I had to vacate,  due to the now deceased family of wasps, is closer to being finished.  I'm gonna add some wonderful rocks.  With the rubber underneath, the grass will not overwhelm me this time.

This is the pipe I am trying to camouflage and a flower bed Dad made for Mom years ago.  I'd say some attention is long over due.

Progress moves with the speed of molasses around here.  See all the mess I have to clean up?  It will have to wait until it dips below a hundred again.  I am working/playing inside now.

Almost finished!!!  Trimmed and moved the gladiolas to the back, removed the grass, and replanted the bulbs I accidentally dug up.  After I clean the mess from this, the rose at the end will be trimmed, mulched with rocks (roses love rocks) and I will have cleaned twenty feet.  I work too slowly!!

Oh, forgot to tell you...I'm on vacation this week.  First time in a long time that I'm off just for the fun of it.  It may be a triple post day every day because I hope I get a lot done to show you.

Hot and Tired

My project for my day began early while it was semi-cool.  The porch and this corner needed cleaning, trimming and a general get my stuff together approach. 

With the porch finished, the water garden refreshed, the horses watered and some progress in this corner, I am drinking to beat the band. I'm sweating buckets and I'm keep getting sidetracked.

I trimmed the irises, pulled grass, put things in their proper places.  Carried the pulled grass to places I needed grass, carried the cut limbs to a debris pile, and broken things to the trash.

Any suggestions on how to camouflage this pipe from the wood stove in the basement?

Replacing my drain guy, I got a surprise.

Notice the lip of the gargoyle.

His buddies swarmed out.

It has been so long since rain has drained,

the red wasps have built a home in the rain spout!

This was as close to finished as I got this morning.  First, I am allergic to wasps and also, it had reached 102 already so it is too hot for an office softie like me to labor in the sun...and live. 

I shall return, when it's cooler,  armed with wasp spray, aim it up that rain spout and run like a crazy women...then I can finish...maybe.