Goin' Right Along

[lillilah]

Did some work on the painting of the jacaranda flowers, although I only actually painted one flower. It will be all ready for flowers tomorrow, though. I did some weeding, which - as I've said before - is just so much easier when all the weeds are totally dry from the sun. Our yard is like 50% accessible now. The area with the old chicken coop is full of tall grass, so I need to pull that all up (which will probably involve a shovel to get all those clumps out). The part of the yard that come to a point like the bow of a ship is full of weeds, as usual. The other real problem area is the area along the wall to the field (as opposed the wall on the side of the street). There is ivy and pink jasmine growing all along the chainlink on top of that wall. Under the ivy is an oleander bush, I think, plus there is a ton of that awful spiky potato-family plant and the bell flower tree, which I've hacked about halfway down. After I get through with the rest of the grass, I might start pulling out the ivy and jasmine and making baskets until I've cut it back far enough so that it isn't up in the trees and so that I can get to the oleander to work on cutting that way back too. We don't need the ivy at all, but I wouldn't mind having the jasmine confined to part of the chainlink and the top of a little arbor with bench. For now, though, I need to sew some straps on my masks for travelling, as the masks I normally wear on transit are getting a bit old.