Obligatory spring mood music.
Every year, I start feeling those familiar stirrings of the season and I (probably) go a little overboard. I plant a bunch of stuff in a frenzy of hope.. though only mint, morning glories, and roses seem to be able to survive, year over year.
Thanks to last year’s courtyard makeover, I also get to clean out my outdoor living space and make it habitable once again.. and honestly, I’ve missed it. Now that it’s warm enough to sit out there and have lunch again, I find myself increasingly eager to do so. There’s a few more upgrades I have in mind for this year (a small table fountain, a miniature zen rock garden), and a few that will probably need to wait (giant wrought iron corg proof gates that lock to avoid the ever present pestyness of unwanted humanity, mostly solicitors, and rebuilt flowerbeds within aforementioned gates).
My birdbath did not have a good winter- it got knocked over. And my tiny lawn patch in the backyard needs to be reseeded. The sigh. And so. many. goatheads need to be burnt.
Oh, are you not familiar with this delightful bit of flora?
Also why I bought a roomba after I stepped on 27 of these in a single day. INSIDE the house.
And, of course, goatheads are extremely tenacious. We already have the yard sprayed, front and back, twice a year. On top of THAT, we have to go burn the ground where these little bastards have been. Not on a windy day, which, if you’ve ever spent a spring in New Mexico, non windy spring days pretty much don’t exist.
Now I’m off to look for new container stuff I can grow in the courtyard- I’ve got honeysuckle that managed to survive the winter, roses, Mexican heather that I nursed through by bringing it into the house. Just remember, all that research will be done while I’m humming the tune seen at the top of the post.
In my defense, at least I don’t let myself burst into the chorus in the middle of Home Despot anymore.
Curiouser and Curiouser 