TanshiCorn

Life has been crazy. The tree is gone but it left a terrible hole in the yard. The garden looked like trash for a long time and I could not muster the motivation to do anything about it. There were too many times that it backfired this year. The area is now healing and filling back in. I am hopeful with the additional light that next year will be a bit more bountiful. I think I will even be able to grow something pretty near the door.

Work has had significant challenges. Staff have moved up within the organization and moved to other provider types so we are currently at about 60 percent. Our central scheduling got messed up because someone decided that we were doing something wrong before, so now we have about double the normal annual workload. Upper management has also been asking for favors to go check things out that are not even priority because the right person asks the question.

I am happy there though. I will take the silly office politicking over what I had to deal with before.

The garden is still producing. The rains lately have caused a significant amount of fungal disease in the solanaceae crops. A good chunk of the tomatoes are sick. The sunflowers and perennial flowers were all trampled by the tree limb falling and the extraction of the tree. The sunflowers are pretty bad ass plants though. Even the ones that were broken down to the ground have found a way to perk back up and put off some flowers. Most of the perennials are beginning to send up new foliage too.

Hopefully at the end of the day, we gave ourselves more sun for the garden and less of the gumball tree problems.

Here are a couple pics of the sunflowers:

I am following a tutorial for a mesh bag to hang in my pantry for the dry storage veggies from the garden. I thought it would be cuter than the plastic ones you can buy and I already had the supplies. It is currently about half done. Pictures when it is finished.

Here is the tutorial I used: