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I’ve been annoyed with myself for years for the poor placement of a very pretty grass, so I moved it today to create a vignette with the butterfly bush.

Laura and I sat in on the Evening in the Garden, which was about:

• perennials (prune vigorously to give them light and air; keep your shears sharpened; avoid new species in their first year; create an easy to maintain border).
• iris: Siberians like water, the rest don’t, so plant in full sun; use bone meal; pick off gone-bys and ugly leaves and roots.
• hydrangeas: tough year for Hydrangea macrophylla like our big ones in the front; prune back the dead stems.  We saw a gardener divide a massive, 300 pound hydrangea root ball that looked like an underground tree trunk with a recipro saw.

Wrote to WCAI and The Enterprise about the shenanigans at the SPEA.  Found a sympathetic ear online and across the street!

Splurged on Roche Bros prepared salads for supper: so good!

I get a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach when someone calls their work associates a “team”.

That equals ass-kissing, conformity and exclusion.

As a woman, you can only be part of a team if you’re pretty or beautiful or at least cute. I learned that a long time ago, about 67-68 years ago, in fact.

This is part of what it means to be an American in 2016.

It’s a measure of this society’s sickness that mentally ill people like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are actually taken seriously as candidates for the Presidency.

I really hate people.

Changed the filter in “my” water pitcher. I like this “Total Home” brand, from CVS.

Planted the asparagus (9).

Made blueberry pancakes; drove R to and from work; transfer station; sheets and laundry; light shop; fish chowder for supper.

That’s the story of the June SPEA annual meeting.

Guilt-ridden, bullying fools.

Best Summer Ever

Fung-Onil’d the little maple yesterday evening.

Cleaned up gone-by tulips and destroyed a wasp nest. Feel badly about that, but it was in a spot where people could get hurt.

It’s muggy and I had a rough night, moving slowly today. Uploaded new files to NEPS with filters for “callin”.

Chicken sausage, mustard greens from Pariah Dog Farm and asparagus from the garden for supper. Stopped by Woodruff’s for a photo exhibit opening, including work by our friend John Moore. Ron made it to the bank in time to deposit his check; good thing, otherwise my * would be grass for getting supper on the table so late (6:30).

FungOnil-d the roses (there are buds!) and the Eastern Redbud.

Finally remembered to put up tomato cages.

First CSA pickup.

Applied for a job.

Busy day yesterday but NO ERRANDS today.

Rained last night and most of the day.  Good air tonight, and it looks like the Three Sisters seedlings survived.  Radishes have started!

The little rhodie that I transplanted to the “woods” from the corner garden has produced gorgeous purple flowers for the first time!

Planted lettuce, plants and seeds, today. Visited Mahoney’s.

Neptune’s on the roses and other flowering plants. Nine gallons.

Spinosad on the little maple and the roses. Deep pruned the roses.

Fish, spuds and one asparagus from the garden for supper.

Supposed to get a storm on Monday but only 0.5 inch of rain.