Day 136
The garden faeries arrived this afternoon. Not to be confused with garden gnomes these were actual men who seemed to flit around my yard for an hour doing what would have taken me an immeasurable amount of time and hard work.
Thank you, new neighbor!!!!
I was out last week getting “yard therapy” after a couple of very frustrating computer days where nothing was going right and I just needed to go dig. So, I started to dig up the sod which was in good soil (which here is ACTUAL SOIL! Black, crumbly soil … REAL DIRT! As opposed to the clay/rock conglomerate of CO!) and expand the borders around my house. I got the north side done and didn’t kill myself in doing so (but nearly) but my new neighbor took pity on me, said he knew a few guys with a sod cutter who could make easy work of this project and that he’d send them over.
So, who am I to turn down such an offer? And today they showed up. In an hour’s time they had the rest of the front done (and they took away what was left of the sod from the area that I worked on) and the side/back yard as well. They guzzled ice water and ice cream bars. I was amazed they were still standing as it was ONLY 97 out at the time they were working. I felt faint and I was just WATCHING! They finished up, raked all the dirt smooth, swept the sidewalks, tidied up and with sweat down to their kneecaps they disappeared. Amazing!
Moby promptly laid down in the cool dry earth and sighed relief. She has been digging up hostas left and right to unearth some soil to lie down in … and now she had a whole wide border of nice cool dirt!
This is not without it’s downside though. The arrival of the garden faeries and the dog swimming pool were almost at the same time. The onslaught of mud on my new family room carpet came afterwards … after a quick swim in the pool and a roll in the dirt and a happy bounding through the family room – by, yes, yours truly, Moby the Wonder Lizard. (Aka: Stinky Poo Pig Dog.)
Who am I to deny the dog pleasure? I have a vacuum. I have a shampooer. I have patience. It’s okay. It’s been so hot, I might just do it myself tomorrow!
Anyway, thank goodness for the niceness of neighbors. All I have to do now is dig up the soil, get rid of a few weeds and plant my Rose Cottage garden!
I told the workmen to come back later in the summer to see the roses and hydrangea, daisies and honeysuckle. I told them in my broken Spanish that I’d have hollyhocks and sweat peas and purple Salvia … lilies and lily of the valley and violets and milkweed and monarda. We’ll see how it goes!
But in the meantime … my hat is off to those hardworking (very big and very sweaty) faeries and my wonderful, generous new neighbor!