I've been working on my hose watering grid this week. I decided to replace some of the soaker hoses with the ribbon type that squirt a small spray along it's length. I gave it a test this morning (I've "pegged" the hose in places to get it to point a particular direction) and I see I need to rework it. I found a buy 1/get 1 free offer on 50' hoses at Home Depot, so I'm able to free up still working hoses of various sites and reposition them.

It's muddy damp work, and there is the added adventure of the cicada killer wasps hovering over my herb area wanting me to move along and let them finish their mating and digging up the bed. I've scattered red cedar chips around a couple of times now, trying to get them to move along. I like them, but not in such high numbers. I suspect they all hatched in this garden - I'm getting more wasps returning to this spot every year.

My wall is built and I've planted flowers along the front edge of the berm. I need to take my weed whacker around the yard and then get a photo of it to post. Folks on facebook have been seeing the stages. Anyone who sits at the stop sign on the street that intersects my street sees that wall directly in front of them and probably realizes it's meant to keep cars out of the house. But I want it to be attractive to anyone who looks at it. I may balance it out with a low structure of some sort on the other side of the yard. Just a thought at this point.

SRS