Sound Check

Yesterday I was playing with The Child on the patio. We had some chalk and I drew a map of the neighborhood.

Then I listened. Noise from Neighbor A bounces off of Neighbor A's house, crosses Neighbor B's yard, reflects off the back of Neighbor C's house and focuses on ... our yard. I drew green soundwaves on the map. Noise from Neighbor D bounces between Neighbor E's house and ours and focuses on ... our yard. More green soundwaves. Noise from Neighbor F funnels through Neighbor E's carport and sluices into ... (you guessed it) our yard. By this time the green lines on the map made a moire pattern about where our cherry tree is.

If only the noises matched themselves somehow and cancelled out.

So I went to Coastal Hardware today. Looks like a Really Big Fountain costs $200 and Really Big Wind Chimes cost $130. Time to budget. Or maybe I can weld some old metal kitchen bowls to a windmill and water pump....

But Where ?

We just got a child's basketball hoop.

Of course now the question is "But where to put it?"

On one hand, it's not bright orange or day-glow green, and it does provide The Child with something to do (other than clip back plants that don't need clipping). But on the other hand, it turns the only flat spot in The Garden of Discontent into a basketball court. And the ball rolls with suspicious regularity into the bulbs (OK, OK, the bulbs are in area A1 and A2, the lowest parts of the yard).

Maybe we can make it look like an Inca ball court.

Progress Report

Moved sage from Area A3 to the old rose site at Area A1. It appears that the bulbs moved around in last weekend's operation are doing OK -- only a few have died. I haven't noticed wilting on the moved rose; so perhaps it will survive the move.

We all have colds at our house, so this weekend has been a gardening-lite one.

Still have to replace the shovel.