A week ago, we went out for dinner in Colville, WA with
friends of ours to celebrate their 19th wedding anniversary. We made a quick stop at Walmart and we saw a
beautiful concrete garden bench at an excellent price of $59. Even though it was heavy, our friends were
gracious enough to let us load it into their car and bring it home.
Stuart mixed up some epoxy sealant that I painted on the
bench pieces to protect them from the sprinklers.
Work in progress.
We put the bench out in our newest landscape area and
created a level spot with a gravel base for the bench. It was a fun job, didn’t take long and it
looks great. We have already sat on in
many times in the past week.
The garden seeds are sprouting and yesterday we put in the
bedding plants (tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers, eggplant, basil and
cucumbers). The weather has turned from
very hot and sunny to warm and cloudy today so the plants should settle in very
well.
In the past couple of years, we have planted our butternut
squash and zucchini outside the garden plot in areas by the house or near the
shop. We did that again this year and
some little critter came along and ate the butternut squashes. All that is left are little stems sticking
out of the ground.
They didn’t eat the zucchini but I put wire cages around
them right away and will do the same with the replacement squashes.
We have a marmot hanging around in the area
and also a covey of quail has been roaming the yard. We suspect that they are the culprits. However, we don’t want to chase them away as
they are fun to watch and to listen to when they call out “Chicago.”
Our plans for getting out on the lake and playing golf keep
getting overridden by other priorities.
We made a trip to Kelowna to purchase some edging stones and then had to
take the car to Castlegar for some warranty work. Always something to do.
My knee is improving every day but I am still very cautious
about trying to do too much yet. It’s
still early in the season.
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