After weeks of trying to find someone to come do it, asking friends to come help me figure out how to plant it, avoiding going out there because as a teenager I HATED being sent out to weed and/or mow, but yesterday I walked out with Jackie and the hateful next door neighbor was walking her daughter's dog, was scowling in the direction of my front door again, and pulled some weeds, turned and THREW THEM ON MY WALK. Lovely Christian woman that she is. Now, after only an hour's effort (I think, it felt like two) and a trash bag full of .. vegetable matter, the front patch is .. cleaned up somewhat.







John and Matticia have both told me that the Wandering Jew needs to come out of there else it take over. Well, fie and fiddlesticks. Maybe it can be put into a pot and take over from a Mount or something. Bring down some clay tablets.

I'm never going out to win the neighborhood association's yard of the month award, but I would like it to look tidier and pleasant. Carla, where are you with your design skills?

I need to do some running around today. Two of my best lady friends are coming over tonight for wine and crackers, and I have to get home early enough to clean the floors and take the eBay stuff (most of which isn't selling at ALL, that's quite the annoyance after investing all that time into it) upstairs.