I’ve had off and on intestinal distress since 11 last night. It hit Ron late this afternoon.

We can’t figure out what we might have eaten that would cause this. Maybe produce, although I thought I washed everything pretty well.

Typical Sunday even so: laundry, change sheets, transfer station run.

I transplanted the violas, pansies and many bulbs, and planted the new flowers from Lowe’s. The window boxes look bare.

Ron washed out dozens of plant containers for recycling. I dug a hole for stones.

Brought tools over to Edgewater so James could trim the bushes. He’s trying to raise $600 to buy equipment for his senior project. Very exciting, and it’s great that he’s interested and able to do work outdoors. He has a job interview tomorrow, so not sure what kind of time he’ll have if he starts working, but he’s already accomplished a lot.

Ron changed the filter in the water pitcher. He also installed the portable A/C this week.

Picked up curtain rods for James. He loves our yard!

The boys did a fantastic job, fixing the fence at Edgewater. They are willing to do more work.

The grass garden is quite beautiful now. Weeding, mulching and fence repair made a huge difference.

I brought more old landscape timbers and fencing to Bourne this morning, and dropped off lampshades and a poster at the swap shop.

Picked up another bag of black mulch to finish up the moonlight garden. Got it down before torrential rain caught up with us. Glad we got cages on the tomatoes and a hoop on the campanula at Edgewater. We have so many tomato plants from last year that I’m not sure what to do with them: thin out, leave them, transplant.

Untangled a bunch of weeds from the larkspur.

Yarrow, astilbe, snapdragons, lysimachia.

Ron picked up and helped me install five more tomato cages.

Added a bag of mulch to the moonglow garden.

Winding up first week of new job.

Fit in an eye exam this afternoon. Had been scheduled for noon, was able to postpone it to 4. Doc graciously introduced me to his daughter and wife. Charming folks.

Downloading SQL 2016 to RAGNAR. Problems with WiFi on RAGNAR this morning. Checked the drivers, seem to be current.

Fortunately, I don’t need SonicWALL for the moment, so switched to Wireless on WORKERBEE.

Nice “attagirl” from Jim B.

Ron is mowing the lawn. It looks horrible. We are short on rain for June.

Stella D’Oros have started. Front of the house is pretty with the geraniums, larkspur, penstemon and evening primrose.

Driving rain briefly this morning.

Roses (all of them)
Iris (last of them)
Penstemon (have been blooming for a while)
Foxglove
Salvia
Peonies
Evening primrose
Larkspur (just started)
Squash, or could be pumpkin or cukes
Tomatoes
Potentilla

A few beans survived being eaten by pests. Small tomatoes on several plants.

I stumbled onto the discount nursery’s half price sale on Saturday and picked up 8 plants.

This was in between flying back and forth to Eagle Fence to return the wrong backing rails – for which we were charged double – and pick up three good ones.

Yesterday, I planted everything, including daylilies and two bellflowers at Edgewater, three daylilies in the front corner garden here, and two hibiscus in the back.

Also celebrated Cathy’s birthday brunch with Cindy at Celestino’s, did the transfer station run and changed sheets. Ron did three loads of laundry.

It’s been humid and on the warm side, high 70’s, low 80’s. We have coped so far with just the fans.

Peter gave us a set of heavy duty plastic plates and glasses for Father’s Day.

Started today with the people in Maryland, Skype call. Downloaded project.

We did a bunch of errands yesterday, including a trip to Bourne to dump old wood construction materials that have been hanging around for years, as well as concrete and the unusable pickets from the Edgewater fence project. Cost $3.30.

Rained last night.

Ron did the lawn today and laundry as well.

I sat in on Ellen’s class to give them an update and paid a brief visit to Edgewater to clean up from yesterday.  James and I managed to get the fence back in place.

Got some good feedback from Jim on Leads.

We spent 3+ hours yesterday working with James and Joe on mulching, weeding, pruning and fence repair.

Ron, James and I were able to take down the fence leading to the back yard.

We used a full truckload (one yard) of premium mulch I’d picked up from Blacksmith Farm the day before.

We didn’t have to move the posts to install some usable crossbeams the boys uncovered the other day.  James and Joe salvaged some pickets as well.  We ended up spending only about $2 for a box of nails.

Ron and Peter moved three big pieces of furniture, including an exercise machine, to the transfer station.

I worked in the grass garden, but it was too hot, so we finished after bringing Robert home.  Planted Rudbeckia from Laura’s front garden and transplanted a little hosta.

I made a mess of the hosta.  I always feel bad for the inevitable damage from planting, and bare root transplanting, such as I had to do with the Rudbeckia, isn’t my favorite.  I hope they all survive.

Tried baking cookies on the grill.  Didn’t work; maybe next time.

Feels like I may be almost done with the Leads project.