#paulsyard

Been a weird few days. My brother came down to spend some time with me. He is an obsessed "grasshole." I didn't know that. He thought he was doing me a favor by getting up early the other day and going out and weed eating the yard and doing some #PaulsYard work "as a surprise." He mistook my wildflower meadow, which is in its establishing year and has been reduced twice already so next year the grow in good and rooted, as high, unkept lawn and mowed it all the way down to level 1, the lowest level on my mower. UGH ... If my mower wasn't electric, it would have woke me up so I could stop him. What did wake me up was, he started the rotor tiller. He was going to till the wildflower meadow and go get some grass seed and reseed it as a surprise. Double UGh.

Hope everyone has a great day. We are taking it easy today. So far, the weather is nice so might tinker in the raised garden beds or around in #PaulsYard some. The #PaulsRoof converted carport new room is almost complete, so, hopefully today the cats can get in there and see what all the fuss and commotion is about. They are going to love the full length glass door to look out of. #SissyCat is doing better with #MillieCat but not 100% there yet. Still separating them when we leave the house for more than an hour or so.

My little #wildflower meadow is attracting all kinds of new life. #PaulsYard OMG, the crickets out there, esp with the little pond. Birds have finally moved in the bird house that was vacant ever since we put it up two years ago, even before we started the work this year on the yard. Butterflies, etc and the flowers are still establishing themselves. Anxious to see what happens next year when the meadow is established. Going to consult for native plants to the area to fill in the beds.

4/ First batch of wildflowers in the wildflower meadow. #PaulsYard is converting to a #NoMow You can tell what is growing in it, but the potatoes we planted in the laundry baskets are growing beautifully. #PaulsGarden #Gardening

3/ Neighborhood cat lounging around the "pond" in #PaulsYard. Eventually the pond will get lined and nice décor around it like authentic Ohio River rock from one of the streams connecting to it and then some pond plants... It got too hot to do anything with and the wildflower meadow needs come in more

2/ Time to setup the trellis for the cucumbers so the vines have something to climb #PaulsGarden #PaulsYard

1/ Penny and I are peanut farmers. lol #PaulsGarden #PaulsYard

The only thing I really do with credit is Affirm through checkouts and I am please to announce that Penny's peach tree and apple tree are finally paid for. lol. I got her those for her birthday in the spring and went with older ones that cost more because the fruit sooner and be damned if she already ate her first peach. The were juicy, too. #PaulsGarden #Gardening #PaulsYard I got them from Fast Growing Trees. https://www.fast-growing-trees.com/products/6-in-1-peach-tree

tl;dr Just a general update about me with 7 subjects for #FediBusyBodies... lol🤭 1) #PaulsYard and #PaulsGarden is coming along. As far as production goes, this year will probably be a bust. Fall planting and early 2027 spring planting will hopefully result in a very productive year next year. Still have some work to do, like irrigation, but it will come in the fall and winter. (If we save $$) 2/ Still haven't got the place feeling like "my space" after we had to clear most of the house out for the floor replacement. 3/ Penny is doing fine from her Widow maker heart attack. Still have limitations but she survived it and is making the best out of the limitations. August will be two years already. The #Fediverse helped me greatly to get through it. The time she was in the hospital I was never alone because of you guys and Hashtag game player.❤️ 4/ My recent Spinal Baclofen Pump replacement surgery went smoothly, pain minimum, and no sign of infection a week in. My overall health is stable but there has been some progression in my Parkinson's plus, Multiple System Atrophy, but not as the speed that is average. My progression is way slower and they are trying to figure out why to see if they can replicate it other people with it. 5/ Taking care remotely of an 85-year-old aunt is a hard thing to do and we are preparing for her new move in here at some point. We are finishing the new room from #PaulsRoof into a suite for her. Two 180 miles round trips per week in the summer is taking its toll on me. 6/ #SissyCat still won't accept #MillieCat into the family and a few months in, we are at our wits end. Sissy's over demeanor has change. 7/ Got my self-hosting home lab setup with some #FediFriends help. Got a lot of work to do still but I already migrated MS OneDrive and Google Drive over to it. So the degoogling will be done, That's about it.

This year, my wife decided to plant a patch of peanuts to make homemade peanut butter and they are growing! I'll get a picture tomorrow. #PaulsYard #gardening

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org do you have access to recent US images? I've been searching for a recent birdseye of my house since we did #PaulsRoof and some of #PaulsYard and still learning how to grab recent ones either free or low cost

If you are following #PaulsYard, here is the view of the front yard #NoMow #WildFlower meadow from today's work from the security camera. The front yard edging and mulch beds, that surround the meadow, is now 90% done. We call that the horseshoe. Tomorrow, The side yard raised bed garden work begins. The front yard when completed will have one patch of grass next to the driveway that is 6 ft wide and around 20 ft long just for any visiting dogs to have a grassy place to potty. #Gardening I'll have Penny take extra pictures tomorrow in the daylight

2/ #PaulsYard #noMow #Wildflower #Garden photo in daytime. Will be starting the side raised fruit and vegetable garden soon. #Gardening Legend: 1> needs spacing move. 2> Wheelchair deck and ramp is getting moved to this door. 3> only lawn, push mow battery mower for visiting doggies, clippings, etc. Will be seeded naturally. 4> Wildflower meadow 5> AC will be removed since we have low voltage HVAC now, recycled matching siding 6> Going to paint siding sandstone with hunter green for posts, doors, etc to match new room

3/ I don't know if you noticed, but at the end of the wildflower meadow we planted a row of Rose of Sharon that we will prune into hedges. We started them last year. The second image actually shows the flowers from the one we created this row from. #PaulsYard #Gardening #WildFlowers

4/FYI, if you are wondering what #PaulsYard started out as, here is the previous vs work-in-progress towards our #noMow #Wildflower and raised bed #garden yard. #Gardening . Will be glad when we tackle the roof and the front siding, tbh. That is this fall in earnest.

@KathyLK@universeodon.com We lucked out. We have 12 2x6 cedar raised beds that a local kid makes really cheap. This entire side yard is going to be a raised bed garden, accessible to me in the power chair. He inherited is grandfathers little portable saw mill. The 8 foot boards are only $1.5 or so a piece that we used for edging and the beds are only $20 each delivered. #PaulsYard #Gardening . I think we got our first batch for like $15 a piece.

Today, the guy that sold us our cedar raised garden beds sold us 120 board feet of cedar to use as flower bed edging for $30. Delivery included! The front yard is going to look good. They are like 1 1/2 inches by 12 inches. He runs a hobby sawmill and trying to get it off the ground. new Hashtag: #PaulsYard