I haven't been feeling too well these last few days so it was nice to be outside all day today in this sunshine we've been having. I actually managed to wear just a t-shirt & catch a slight tan, which is strange this time of year. But as soon as that sun disappeared, it sure went a lot cooler. I am currently underneath my snuggie writing this!
Front garden - where the grass has turned mostly into moss, so it's more like a carpet!
The back garden, where I was weeding the rockery (above) & my vegetable/herb patch round back of the house. I managed to fill the whole green waste bin (which if you don't know how much that is, is a lot)! Now is definitely the best time of year to do it though & I'm glad I've managed to get most of it done. However, along the way there were a few encounters I could have lived without... like a huge centipede that crawled out from underneath a plantpot, yuck - I hate them sooo much! Then there was this:
I was clearing the dead leaves then I stumbled across this. The first thing I did was run into the house & shout Dave saying I'd found a dead turtle. When I first saw it I honestly thought it was a dried up, dead, decomposing turtle. It looked horrible & had no eyes, plus the shell looked so real because it was made out of wood or something... Inside, it had rotted away into a white powder which I assumed was just rotten turtle. Then we found a metal plant pot attchment for the top of the shell, so we knew it was a garden ornament, but how freaky is that??
Also, I'm not very happy with a certain Chihuahua at the minute. He's been doing his 'whoopsies' as Dave & I call them ON the patio (you can see the little dark spots on the 2nd photo). Now, he never used to do this last year at all - it'd always be on the grass... I'm guessing because I hadn't cut the grass in a looong time (not at all over winter) he probably didn't want to go into the long, wet, cold grass - Chihuahua's are very fussy with anything wet - well, mine is anyway. He hates the sea, rain, puddles or any kind of water that isn't in his bowl. I'm going to make sure this stops though, because I wasn't happy at all today when I accidentally stood in one...
Oh & if there are any gardeners reading this... does anyone know whether I need to cut the old Hydrangea flowers off the actual plant, or do they just drop off naturally? I can see the new buds growing on each branch, but the dead flowers just look ugly!
