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- Monday, 5/8: Gardening, Day Two
- When I walked Cooper around the west field, I saw the bright blue of an indigo bunting at the end of Bobcat Trail. The north woods is wide open through the winter, but now, leaves on bushes fill the woods so that you can't see far. Some oak saplings have huge leaves that are 9-10 inches long.
- I mowed the inside and the outside of the near garden and deposited grass clippings on the south row of that garden to finish mulching it.
- I pounded persimmon stakes in the middle of 12 sections of the north chicken wire fence of the near garden to secure it to the ground. There are 10 sections left of that side of the garden, then all of the east, south, and west sides. I also used soil from an old ant hill and filled a few holes under the chicken wire fence.
- Mary planted lettuce and radishes in tubs where we normally plant winter greens. I guess we should call them summer greens, not winter greens tubs. This will hopefully be a way for us to have salad makings all summer long. Then, we'll plant winter greens in those tubs in the late summer.
- At evening chore time, Mary heard a summer tanager, so she reached for the Merlin app on her phone that identifies bird calls. From it, she identified an eastern kingbird, a red-eyed vireo, a rose-breasted grosbeak, and a northern mockingbird. These are all new birds for the season.
- We had thunderstorms briefly roll through after dark. On Cooper's last walk, we really noticed a continuous show of lightning flashing south of us.
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