Weeks ago, I ordered a box “Dutch Grown” bulbs for spring flowers. I tried to get types that deer don’t like. Most will be fenced the first year, but the plan is to have some in a “test” bed to see how the deer respond. I got a couple types of Daffodils, Allium, and Hyacinth.
\nMy ground isn’t well suited for such plantings, so I wanted mulch. I’d gotten three bags when I was planting new Plum trees. It seemed expensive for just 1.5 cubic feet. So \u2026
\nWhile transferring money to Walter, my contractor, I asked wife Lynn if he or one of the crew could take the flat-bed dump truck to the City’s composting facility and bring me a few cubic yards. Here’s the response I got:<\/p>\n
Sorry, I was out of town and then Walter had an accident. Went down a 150\u2019 embankment and flipped the truck. So, I haven\u2019t gotten back to you. I haven\u2019t had a chance to get to everything. I\u2019ll take a look at it next week once the family leaves and I can focus on my work. The Wolverine is named Gulo gulo<\/em>. On Thursday night I went to the “Zoom” presentation of the film Where’s Gulo<\/strong>, and while the film might be good in a different setting, this was a minor disaster. The person on the other end was Project coordinator Claire (Cal) Waichler. Seemed knowledgeable, but \u2026 Keeping Track Weeks ago, I ordered a box “Dutch Grown” bulbs for spring flowers. I tried to get types that deer don’t like. Most will be fenced the first year, but the plan is to have some in a “test” bed to see how the deer respond. I got a couple types of Daffodils, Allium, and Hyacinth. … Continue reading “There’s always something #37”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-3wN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13565"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13571,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565\/revisions\/13571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHope you\u2019re doing well , Lynn<\/em>
\nNote that she did not say whether Walter survived. I’ll find out this week.
\nSo I ordered 7+ cubic yards of mulch from a local MRM Landscape Supply. That’s 189 cubic feet, or 126 BiMart bags. BiMart would have charged $1,134 while MRM delivered it for half that. No bags.
\nSunday, I cleaned one of the three places where I want to plant and watered the ground. Then I carried dirt and sand and mulch to the spot and planted 1\/3rd of the bulbs. I used 3 garden carts of the mulch – hardly making a dent in the pile. I’ll add more after getting all the rest of the bulbs in the ground.
\nMeanwhile, I mowed and bagged (not mulching in-place) the leaves from under the Walnut trees. I’ll water again (unless we get a good rain) and cover the area with the chopped leaves \u2013 for the winter.
\nI have moved the (electric) small log splitter to a shed. The one where it was is gone \u2013 too close to the house. “Firewise” folks claim away is better. That area is now gravel. Tested the new set-up. Working. Good.<\/p>\n
\n It has been 10 years since Zoom launched and the locals (Audubon group meeting in the Library) have never come close to doing one of these in a respectable manner. A 7:00 o’clock start time got going about 20 minutes late because the sound was barely audible. They started anyway. The visual feed was jerky (zoom-lag). About 10 minutes in, the person in charge began holding a microphone against the laptop’s speaker. Audio became better, meaning that noise level in the room had to be near zero to hear the presentation.
\nWhen the movie was over there were a few questions that Cal answered nicely. Low sound and jerky feed continued. Very sad. \ud83d\ude22
\nMight rain tonight \u2013 just a little, or not. <\/p>\n
\non the Naneum Fan
\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"