Beware the Mad Axman!
Jul. 8th, 2007 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianA short while ago, Justin and I started framing the heaths and heathers on the back bank with wood borders, using fallen trees. One got a bit scraggly at the end, and today we broke out the axe and chopped it off. We made a couple of cuts on another and dragged that into place to complete the bottom edge of the left section. We still need to hunt down and put into place most of the top border on that side, as well as finish off the far edge on the left. The right side was completed when we first worked on it.
Before that, I managed to put a wheelbarrowful of rock down around the family room border - a little less than one load, and it should be complete from garage wall all the way around to the deck.
I had planned to seal off some of the corners of the siding - we've seen mice, chipmunks, and snakes zip up into those areas. Grabbed the expanding foam sealant my mom and dad had brought (which instantly means it was at about two years ago or more) but couldn't find the steel wool I thought was set aside for that purpose. Deb turned up some steel wool, though, so we were all set. Got all prepared to test out the foam stuff on some newspaper, and hey! presto! no foam. Applied as much pressure I could, and still nothing. So I read the can closely - "Do not use after date printed on bottom of can". Well, that cleared everything up - it expired on smudge-smudge-blur-completely-unreadable, which was some time ago, I suppose.
I used the scissors to trim some of the grass around the heaths and heathers - there will be mulch there, but I may wait until spring as it won't do all that much good now and I only plan to mulch that once and let growing plants and fallen leaves do the rest. Justin followed through with the grass shears to the left of the stone stairs, as we had only done a rough job there with the string trimmer. The right side had been done with the grass shears when we first set up the borders.
Took a few snips on the wisteria after all that to cut back the long vine wannabes. After supper I'll complete the mad axman look by spraying blood all over the place - since we had such heavy rain, I expect the Plantskydd (i.e. cow blood, pig blood, and vegetable oil) has washed off, and those hooved Hoovers will come in and suck up everything that doesn't smell like a predator and/or death.
Before that, I managed to put a wheelbarrowful of rock down around the family room border - a little less than one load, and it should be complete from garage wall all the way around to the deck.
I had planned to seal off some of the corners of the siding - we've seen mice, chipmunks, and snakes zip up into those areas. Grabbed the expanding foam sealant my mom and dad had brought (which instantly means it was at about two years ago or more) but couldn't find the steel wool I thought was set aside for that purpose. Deb turned up some steel wool, though, so we were all set. Got all prepared to test out the foam stuff on some newspaper, and hey! presto! no foam. Applied as much pressure I could, and still nothing. So I read the can closely - "Do not use after date printed on bottom of can". Well, that cleared everything up - it expired on smudge-smudge-blur-completely-unreadable, which was some time ago, I suppose.
I used the scissors to trim some of the grass around the heaths and heathers - there will be mulch there, but I may wait until spring as it won't do all that much good now and I only plan to mulch that once and let growing plants and fallen leaves do the rest. Justin followed through with the grass shears to the left of the stone stairs, as we had only done a rough job there with the string trimmer. The right side had been done with the grass shears when we first set up the borders.
Took a few snips on the wisteria after all that to cut back the long vine wannabes. After supper I'll complete the mad axman look by spraying blood all over the place - since we had such heavy rain, I expect the Plantskydd (i.e. cow blood, pig blood, and vegetable oil) has washed off, and those hooved Hoovers will come in and suck up everything that doesn't smell like a predator and/or death.
