Looking back at the last post.. wow. That's some major grammatical errors. Usually I like to leave the errors in because that's how it was written and it's a reminder to me to double check my work. However, this time I'm almost tempted to edit and fix.
I also noticed that some of my pictures are gone. I keep/kept my pictures at Flickr and I had a pro account there. I haven't put pics up at there in well over 3 years so I decided to let my pro acct go back to basic and I lost some of the pics which obviously affected the links. My anal retentive side wants to fix it so that the pics that are missing are back but... eh... that's a lot of work.
The weather here has started to cool off and we've had a bit of rain. It's still coming either in buckets or none at all which is making my grass if not me develop a twitches. The golden sage I bought is doing surviving but the the pineapple sage did not last a week. The citronella I bought also died and I kept that in the container. I think until I am very far along in maintaining my yard, that I will stay away from container plants. Growing plants in containers is not as easy as everyone makes it out to be. You have to be aware of the nutrient level which apparently is too much for me to remember.
The rosemary is doing ok in spite of being a ground cover and having a dog who is determined to kill everything in my backyard. Tobie, who has done damage before, decided to go behind me and yank at the rosemary. Of the 5 I planted, she yanked at 2 of them to the point that they look like they are about to die because their roots got so exposed I've decided to just leave them be and so far they are lasting.
I've also had a revelation of sorts. It's really hard to grow things with Pecan trees. I constantly, constantly, constantly have to rake with Pecan trees. If they aren't dropping nuts, their dropping leaves or twigs or entire branches. At least mine are. These trees are very old. We've been here for 19 years and the trees were mature trees when we bought the house. Our house was built in 1957 but I don't know if they are that old. Anyhoo, with the constant raking, it's really hard to establish ground cover underneath the trees but I shall persist!
A friend told me that this winter is suppose to be a La Nina year here. I don't put a lot of weight into the whole La Nina/El Nino theory. It seems like every year someone is saying that it's La Nina or El Nino season. There does seem to be some buzz in the air that this winter will be a wet one and I am really hoping so. Of course, I haven't put in my rainwater collection system yet and am hoping to do that next year so of course, this will be the year we get tons and tons of rain.
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