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Including Spring Weed Clean Up Notes
I made a solo day trip on Sunday. The highlight of the trip was a sighting of a Great Blue Heron at the lake. Normally I would tackle weeding and weed whacking around the house at this time of year but my back could not tolerate it.
So ;-) here is what needs to be done on the southeast side of the house, see picture below:
This is the procedure for first-of-the-season clean-up. Later, the area requires less detail work and can be mostly mowed with the big mower.
Hand pull the sticky bedstraw (Gallium) that is covering the ground under the alder tree. You can't mow it or weed whack it. Thankfully it pulls up easily.
Stihl string trimmer is the tool to use when knocking down the tall growth.
Weed whack tall sticker-producing stalks of dried fiddleneck (amsinkia), sanicle (more stickers) and dried grasses, avoiding the still green narcissus leaves.
Tidy up narcissus leaves. They can be w-whacked or mowed later, when they are fully dried.
Bed next to the stone wall of house/stair, under apricot/grape/oleander, needs to be cleared of all weeds. This area needs some sort of weed block and then stone (not chips). part of firescaping topic.
ReportIng:
Poison oak patch to the left of swimming pool that was treated with RoundUp by clearing crew has not reappeared!
rosemary looks stressed -- watered it, rose and azalea area.
I think Andrew Pepper arrived midday Sunday. I went down to the lake not long after and he wasn't there. So, didn't talk with him.
There was a dead mouse on the kitchen floor. I have no idea how it died, why it would be there on the floor...?
There is a piece of flashing on the northwest side of the house that has come loose and flaps around in the wind. How to fix that? need a very tall ladder.
It was very windy everywhere but at the house. Heard a large tree crash down in the upper forest.
Only 2000 gallons left in the upper tank. Need to re-activate the pumping system. The upper tank should be kept as full as possible. Job for Allan?
Brought balsamic vinegar, Dawn dish detergent, kosher salt
Fixed a kitchen drawer that had come off it's track.
Need a new cover for the Weber BBQ
Propane level 80%
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