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The window squirrel has a weird face bump
Apr. 16th, 2024 03:02 pmIt's not grossly disfiguring, but it's definitely visible. Google suggests that this is probably not a serious problem or disease, not that I could do anything to help the poor squirrel if it was.
In other news, after getting along our back fenceline today I took a detour and got up two big patches of daffodils in the front yard. Shoved a dozen back into the dirt; gave a dozen to the kids down the block for their mom, reassured them that it is impossible to kill daffs, god knows I've tried; and left the rest out for M to pick up.
These aren't classic single daffodils, big yellow-on-yellow. These are white fluffy doubles. I've still got several patches of white-and-salmon and white-and-orange to dig up in the back, and medium-sized white-on-whites, and of course our itty-bitty yellow-on-yellows down by the sidewalk.
As far as the back goes, I've been mostly taking the approach of getting every patch of ragweed I can see, which has worked more or less to stop it from spreading while I dig and dig and dig unceasingly. The trouble is, of course, the runners. What looks to be bare dirt or a single little bitty leaf poking out often turns out to have the densest set of roots underneath. I think I've gone as far as I can with the patch-by-patch approach in the left part of our backyard. It's time for me to draw up a grid and start working systematically. Every time I dig up one section of grid I'll put down some wildflower seeds and mulch. Speaking of wildflowers, when I get the front yard I'm going to lose our violets, I think. I'm not sure what varietal they are. They're not what I think of as Johnny-jump-up, purple and yellow. They're not the darker purple people sell as violets and/or violas (never been sure of the difference). They're a lighter blue? I want to replace them with more of the same, but I haven't found the seeds online for that.
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In other news, after getting along our back fenceline today I took a detour and got up two big patches of daffodils in the front yard. Shoved a dozen back into the dirt; gave a dozen to the kids down the block for their mom, reassured them that it is impossible to kill daffs, god knows I've tried; and left the rest out for M to pick up.
These aren't classic single daffodils, big yellow-on-yellow. These are white fluffy doubles. I've still got several patches of white-and-salmon and white-and-orange to dig up in the back, and medium-sized white-on-whites, and of course our itty-bitty yellow-on-yellows down by the sidewalk.
As far as the back goes, I've been mostly taking the approach of getting every patch of ragweed I can see, which has worked more or less to stop it from spreading while I dig and dig and dig unceasingly. The trouble is, of course, the runners. What looks to be bare dirt or a single little bitty leaf poking out often turns out to have the densest set of roots underneath. I think I've gone as far as I can with the patch-by-patch approach in the left part of our backyard. It's time for me to draw up a grid and start working systematically. Every time I dig up one section of grid I'll put down some wildflower seeds and mulch. Speaking of wildflowers, when I get the front yard I'm going to lose our violets, I think. I'm not sure what varietal they are. They're not what I think of as Johnny-jump-up, purple and yellow. They're not the darker purple people sell as violets and/or violas (never been sure of the difference). They're a lighter blue? I want to replace them with more of the same, but I haven't found the seeds online for that.
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