This is the US Postal Employees' food drive collection day so I put a bag of canned and non-perishable bagged goods on the porch, and in the process of poking around the pantry shelves I found a number of way-expired jars. The contents of three jelly jars were stirred into a bucket of water that was sloshed around the base of the tomatoes in the garden (the sugar stimulates the biological activity in the soil). Other things can go into the compost.

I started mowing the back yard last night and I'll finish this afternoon. I have to take the trimmer out front and knock down more vines and use the Hori Hori knife to trimming out the vines under the Salvia greggii (it also makes a great weapon). I always joke to the neighbors that one of these days the village garden club may invent a "most improved" sign to award me one of these months.

I realize I'm probably setting up at this house the same kind of thing my friend who is moving soon is encountering now; I have a lot of specialized plants that if/when I ever sell, the realtor will want managed or gone. I'll just have to try to sell to another gardener.

After mowing I need to tackle the cluttered horizontal surfaces, flatten cardboard boxes, and get out that Ryobi scrubber to get the muddy prints up in the den.