Ran Out of Light, and Now Rain.

Yesterday I woke to find:

Friday night we had visitors.

And the neighbours had visitors of the human kind.

I reburied the scraps. Everything they've pulled out has been from when I cleaned the slimy stuff out of the fridge and I haven't seen any bite marks. I'm hoping that finding inedible stuff is teaching the critters to leave the pile be... if not it's a squirrel buffet and as long as they don't spread it too far I don't care. :)

After lounging around and poking at my laptop a bit I decided I should probably get my butt in gear on that edging. I started around noon but there where things I had forgotten needed doing before I could even start the edging.

Garlic grows roots FAST.

Neat and tidy and off the grass.

I got the lil garlic and onions in the front bed and managed to tidy-up our mess of a woodpile into something resembling order. That black desk had been sitting in the carport since before we moved in. John and Meg moved it to the back for this. We're going to put a tarp over the desk part(under the logs) to keep the desk and kindling from getting too wet.

Finally started edging!

First bed (#9) and path edging complete at 3:30pm.

Don't worry about the drainpipe, we're not leaving it there. Plans are for a rain barrel. I had set up the strings just to give us a sense of proportion but I ran out of sturdy sticks so... You get the picture. At this point in the day there was only about an hour left of light and Megan wanted to go to the computer store again to get a couple more things for the early Christmas presents she was giving us.  Can't really say no to that so I tidied up and went along. Then this happened:

Fabulous.

Indoors or out, there's plenty to do.

I had planed on getting up early and finishing the edging because it was supposed to sprinkle this morning and be clear tomorrow in case there was any left. They guessed wrong, and so did I. Rain, rain, rain. I'm hoping for another dry spell before it gets too cold or drops the dreaded white stuff. Looks like I'm doing planning on paper today, and tomorrow, and Tuesday... Maybe by next weekend I can finish the edging. Til then I'll be planning and puttering with planters.