Jaci Dawn

I am not really smart when it comes to having time off and needing or wanting to get things done. I came into this weekend with low back pain but did it stop me from doing a ton of stuff? Oh no, what’s pain? And maybe I’d do something to make whatever is out slip back in…

It’s looking terribly like I will be calling my doctor this week. Hopefully I can get an appointment that doesn’t take a big hole out of a work day, like an early morning slot. I don’t need to miss any more work.

Now that I have complained, here’s a little bit of what I did today. Just today, mind you: the entire weekend is dedicated to some art work but what I did today lies under the heading “the what you do while you wait for the glue to dry so you can move on to the next step step”.

I bought some flowers at BiMart yesterday. They were on sale because they were dying with the rest of the garden center plants. I planted those flowers.

Yes, I know what it is but I left the little card somewhere and I’m not going to go look for it. It’s in the mum family.

Another mum.

I planted the little ID tag with this. All I remember about it is that it grows tall and it like part shade. And it’s very pretty purple.

So I’m not making any points as a Master Gardener tonight, I want to reiterate: my back hurts. I refuse to walk back out and look these things up right now. Sometimes my blogging audience just has to deal with it. I know you’ll forgive me.

I worked on multiple art projects, too.

Then I got a wild hair (or is it a wild hare?) and decided to take down the fence around my prayer garden. I put the fence up three years ago when Murphy was a very large and obnoxious puppy and my prayer garden was still in the very beginning stages. Murphy has grown.

So has my garden.

and

Those are my pitiful tomato plants in the front. I think I have a blossom starting to open on one. It’s only the 3rd of July, what the heck. If we have hot weather through October, I might even get a ripe tomato.

I decided what my magazine rack needed was hens and chicks. (The top has been removed as it is part of what I am working on this weekend art-wise.)

Left over hens and chicks were transplanted to the dry side of the garden where all the neighbor’s pine cones fall. They should survive. I think I’ll plant a number of sedums in that area over the next few weeks. Great drainage.

Tomorrow or maybe Tuesday I will post the art projects. I think I should be done with most of them by then.

I’m really just so excited to be able to spend a whole weekend working on art and not much else. 🙂

And something to leave you with: what does that sign say that I have hanging in my prayer garden?

You’re dying to know, I know it.

WARNING

UNDER OREGON LAW ORS 30.687 & 30.697, AN EQUINE PROFESSIONAL IS NOT FOR AN INJURY TO OR THE DEATH OF A PARTICIPANT IN EQUINE ACTIVITIES RESULTING FROM THE INHERENT RISKS OF EQUINE ACTIVITIES.

In other words, if you go out into my horse pasture to pet my horse and he spooks and kicks you, it’s your own dang fault – not the horse’s. Or the owner of the horse. I don’t have a horse anymore but I like my sign. “Inherent risks of equine activities” still makes me smile. And, yes, I’ve been kicked.

Write it off to one of those strange things I like in my garden. And I do have a horse in the garden, somewhere. Another one of those mysterious finds out there…

There it is! Watching the big dogs play!

Hope your weekend was just as productive, minus the dang back ache. I need more ibuprophen now…