Stacked & the Attack of the Giant Chocolate Blancmange

 

Half of our wood for the year

Our annual wood deliveries arrived this past week. Two cords on Thursday (which I moved to the back yard myself) and another two cords on Friday (which I stacked, while we got help from one of the kids, currently the Golden Child, and her boyfriend.)

It's a satisfying feeling to have it laid in and know that we will be toasty warm, even if fascists attack the power grid post-election.

The season has well and truly changed. The last cosmo (and, coincidentally the first cosmo) of the summer bloomed last week.

The deck furniture has been eaten by a large chocolate blancmange that has taken up residence outside of our kitchen window.

On the positive side, the grass and clover that I started from the end of September through early October has taken over the dirt patch that was our back yard after I'd raked and ripped up the creeping Chalie infestation. Too early to say whether the grand army of nematodes has managed to slaughter the foul invasive white grubs. But that grass is looking pretty healthy (if less firmly established than I'd hoped.)

After

Before

It gives me hope that the lawn we want, the poor-man's polinator lawn of sheep fescue, creeping red fescue, and Dutch white clover, will come back next spring instead of wet, smelly, grub-sheltering creeping Charlie. We shall see.

Now it's just a matter of getting the beds all made up for winter. We are prepared. All is proceeding according to plan.