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The eggs hatched. I was digging more potatoes 🥔 today and the momma bird flew up and so I checked the eggs and they were babies😀
Hope you can see the babies.
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anywhere -it sounds lovely!!!
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They are preparing to close the seasonal garden centre at the local grocery store and have marked 75% off all their plants. Wherever am I going to put that peach drift rose?
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Violet, you had a great idea! When I walk my neighborhood I secretly make plans for what needs doing in other people’s yards! Gardening is a wonderful stress reliever and you’ve found a nice way to be helpful and get paid both!
As for us we’ve spent a hot weekend putting out composted cow manure, a layer of top soil and new mulch in our beds. We watched our neighbors leave for the lake Friday and when they came back on Sunday we’d just finished. I’m guessing they thought we’re nuts...
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Violet, this article might interest you. Dirt is good for you!

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/66840.php
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What a wonderful idea Violet, play in the dirt and get paid too!
I've sometimes thought about bringing my shovel to dig out some of the obvious weeds in the gardens I encounter on my daily rounds but I'm not sure that would be appreciated (lol)
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Hello fellow caregivers and gardeners!
I live in a suburb of Chicago. My mother who's 83 and has moderate dementia, lives with my husband and me. We have 3 kids, two of whom are still in college and thus are home periodically. My father has Alzheimer's and died of aspiration pneumonia in November 2015. My mom cared for him at home until about 20 months before he died, when she finally realized she needed to place him in memory care. He had become very violent and wandered a lot plus she could no longer coax him to bathe or go to bed or eat etc. I had about 1 year after he died before my mom started to show signs of short term memory loss. She has no chronic health problems other than back and hip pain which limits her mobility. So we sold our house (and the house my parents lived in which I owned and where I had gardened for 20 years) and rented the house that she can live in with us with a bedroom on the first floor. At this point she can't remember any new information at all. We had a wonderful relationship before she moved in. I struggle daily with our conversations, which are stuck on repeat, she challenges everything I do, and she has other emerging habits that cause other problems, i.e., she wants to eat nonstop to the point where we have food hidden everywhere and she lets our new (as of May 2019) rescue dog out of the house! We do not have a fenced in backyard and he just takes off! We've had to bail him out of the pound two times in 1 month. $187 each time. Anyway, I am going slowly crazy because I've had to stop working to take care of her. So this spring I posted on our local nextdoor.com that I was available to weed and manage perennial gardens for $20/hour. I got 6 offers within an hour. After it all shook out I ended up with two clients. After having perennial borders for 20 years and then moving into this rental house without anything planted I am ECSTATIC about getting my hands dirty again. Both people who I am gardening for seem to appreciate the help. The both have too many square feet of garden area to manage themselves and money doesn't seem to be an issue. I work in their yards on days my husband can work from home and in the weekday evenings and on the weekends. That's my story, thanks for reading! Marya
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Hello! Is this a subgroup of AgingCare for caregivers who are also gardeners? Let me know, I'd love to join the conversation.
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Temp actually made it to 100 degrees. Then rain rolled in, temp has dropped 20 degrees in the last 45 minutes or so. Noisy thunder!

Sod Tuesday!
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More goathead yoga. One hour early this morning temp about 70. Went for coffee and egg pie. Back home another hour, until temps reached 90. Enough for today, cold shower time. Sod going in on Monday, maybe?

Oh and central air did not work, it was only the fan on the furnace. Air conditioner unit would not come on. Thank goodness for the business I am in. Someone actually came right over yesterday, actually two someones, then they on the phone with plumber and electrician. Problem, my stove thought it was the air conditioner, wired to the thermostat. And air conditioner thought it was the stove. Mislabeled breaker box. It is nice an cool in her now! PHEW! Supposed to get up to 98 today.
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Evenings we have a baby hawk squawking to be fed.
The parents flying in circles above, being harassed by a crow.
Turtle doves come close to the window perched on a trellis to visit
Tweety the budgie in the window.
A hummingbird helicopters at the window to listen to the bird videos.
Neighbors having successes with almost wall to wall plants in varying size
containers.
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And central air works!
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Well, it seems that summer has arrived. First 90 degree day this year, here. Usually have on the order of 15-20 of those days by now. It has been a very cool spring. Two bomb cyclones, two feet of snow in the mountains just last weekend.

Boulders are in. Dirt has been amended and graded. Sprinkler went in today, landscaper says maybe sod on Monday? Been a long time coming and I will believe it when I see it. Frogs living in window wells......
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I think in many ways having a very large garden is easier than having a tiny one or trying to grow in containers, although the sheer volume of physical work is greater it is less of a big deal to lose a plant or two and crop rotation is a snap. My container grown peppers are looking sickly this year, I'm not sure why because they have the same soil mix as the tomato which is doing well.
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Smeshque,
You are a real farmer and I am still trying to grow tomatoes out of a pot..LOL I'll get there! I hope!
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Nice tractor Glad!
Are you going to get a blow torch for the goat heads next?
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Wow! smeshque. You're a real farmer. How much wheat did you grow/harvest? Is it enough for your own use till next harvest? Do you sell what you grow?
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Wheat has been harvested. Been harvesting lots of tomatoes daily.
I am so thankful for soaker hoses. DH did not realize the chore of watering the greenhouse. Until he had to do it one day, and then he only did half and I finished it. It is over an hour of watering each plant. But anyway, he bought some soaker hoses the other day and we installed them tonight in the greenhouse. So now, I do not have to spend so much time watering, just turn on the water and leave it a few hours and done. YAY! quite a blessing for me.
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Got my tractor, if only I had grass!
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Cwillie, I sent you a message regarding nibbling pests in the garden.
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What an awesome nest, so perfectly round.

Thank you for sharing that.
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Here is a picture of the little nest of eggs in the midst of potatoes plants. I saw the bird it was a little brownish bird, I was glad it came back to it's nest.
I am not fluent in bird species so not sure what kind it is.
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https://dengarden.com/gardening/goat-heads-puncture-vine-sand-burr-removal

Glad,
This website looks interesting on goatheads. It sounds very labor intensive.
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😕

More goat head yoga today. I am tuckered out. Might see if I can find someone to burn them.
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So, something has gone and nipped almost all my pole beans off at the ground. I'm all for tolerating the little creatures we live with (yes, even the tree rats I complain about so much), but.... they didn't even eat them😒
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Smesque, that is awesome. I love to hear that others actually adjust their plans for the critters that feel safe enough to create nurseries around them.

We have odd shaped trees right now because of the doves that are nested. It is a blessing to watch the cycle of life for other creatures.

We have doves that builds a nest on our patio beam, they are getting ready to fledge their 2nd nest, probably 1 more before they are done. They have finally stopped swooping down on us when we go out our back door.

Thanks for sharing your nesting news, get a picture if possible.
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Isthisrealyreal- that is so neat, the nest.
Today we dug two rows of our red potatoes, still have 5 1/4 to go, but anyway. As we were digging them up, we came across this little nest right between two potato plants. The eggs were so little and white with black speckles. Not sure what kind of bird it may be. But we left it and left those plants so it would still feel secure.
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The lilies of the Nile have buds this year - yay

they didn’t bloom last year - the Viking planted then ions ago along with her bareroot roses
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