The deck is
very nice. Love the sound it makes when you walk across it. We got the table
moved onto it with the help of a friend, and have thus far used it for lunching
on just twice. The weather has been poor, and dining out in the yard is just
not happening very often. Once it warms up, we should be out there a lot.
In
preparation for many fair-weather meals to come, The Card Player bought me an
early birthday present – a raspberry-colored parasol. Now that the table is not
in the shade of the cherry tree, we need to make shade for it. Fix one problem
(chair legs sinking into the ground) and create another (sunburned head).
Parasol is still in its box in the basement, waiting for a sunny weekend.
A walnut
tree sprouted in the yard. I like walnuts and would be happy to have a tree of
my own. It needs to be moved, though, having decided to come up in the middle
of the veg patch. Where to put it is a good question. Walnuts make cold shade,
so don’t count on many veg growing under it. They also get pretty big.
I have a
big yard, but it’s fairly crowded with trees already. Cut down five so far and
there’s still not room for a big old walnut.
For the
moment I’m going with walnut-in-a-pot. Probably should have got a bigger pot.
In digging up the sprout I realized it’s probably been there not just one year
like I thought, but maybe three or four. I’m frequently chopping sprouts from
the plum tree right on the edge of the veg patch, and the random apples that come up from
the compost, and the wild roses that keep coming back again and again. When
they’re really small, who knows what they are? I did not get an A in botany. The
plums are the worst, since they come up from the root system and not from
seeds. Every week I’m dealing with wannabe plum trees.
Anyway, I
ripped it out of there and we potted it. There was a lot of damage to the
roots, but so far it’s looking ok. Perhaps I’ll let JP torture it into a sort
of bonsai. He might like that. At any rate, the pot matches the parasol.
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