A Brief Cool at Last, and a Bit of Yardwork
Just checked the outside temp: 66F. That may or may not sound like a cold snap for you, but for us it's been a rough haul. For the last two or three weeks, it seemed that every day was an oppressive 80 degree plus haul. Temps here in the house would routinely hit the 85+ mark. Arggghhh!
But through it all, I've tried to re-claim a sizable chunk of our back yard. Here's the skinny... The previous owners of this house built up a sizable pile of leaves, grass clippings, and whatnot in the back corner of the lot in the hopes of making a compost heap. While those ingredients will eventually break down into an organic matter, they alone certainly do not a compost heap make. (It didn't help that Mrs. CCA and I added on to the mound.) But all avoidances must come to an end, and "The Mountain" was/is no exception. And so game was on... (As it turned out, the decades of leaves and clippings did ultimately make for a good home turf for crawling vines and other undesirables. Oh goody! But because of the heat (not to mention temporal constraints), pretty much the only time I can get out there is dusk and night.
The idea is to flatten the riff raff back to the tree line and mow the ivy such that it only crawls the Lawns of Glory. Then we can plant some grass and figure out what we want to do with the new 500 - 1,000 sq ft. of yard. I'm thinking maybe a corner feeder and perhaps a couple of real drum-composting units... Then again, we could use a shed back there, or maybe a gazebo... Hmmm...
Pondering by those dark feeders...
CapeCodAlan
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