When I was still living in Bremerton, the nearby Navy base had an active shooter drill and they let off a siren. I hadn't lived in Minnesota for 45 years at that point and I still damn near picked up the mattress to bring it into the bathroom. Old habits die hard.
Welp, my yard is seeded and now I'm watering. I bought two hoses, one 100ft and one 125 ft, and three sprinklers, and I guess the best I can say is running all over the yard might actually lose me some weight this summer.
I was told to water an hour at a time three times a day. Instead I'm going for two hours in the morning because it's been in the mid 80s for the last two days. Going to drop 25 degrees in the next day or so. But if I watered three times a day, I'd have the water running all day long. As it is, I move two of the sprinklers to new patches and I'm still missing a section or so. I have to figure out what to do about that.
So the guy that seeded my lawn carried my sofa into the shed. At least the cat can't use it as a scratching post. But I left the side of my little enclosed-by-netting yard open so he could do that, meaning to close it up the next day. I was too late.
Some deer got in and chewed down one barrel of strawberries, decimated the tomato plants, gnawed on the willow tree, and stripped off the leaves to the blueberry plants. The fence is now up and just to be safe, I also rolled netting around the plants inside the netting.
I don't know if the tomato plants will survive or if I have to get new ones. All that was left were stems and one plant was pulled completely out of the bucket. So I combined the 3 tomato plants I had bought and planted seeds (yes, I know, a little late) for a different kind of cherry tomato plant called Matt's Wild Cherry Tomato. I'd forgotten I had those seeds.
I think the strawberries will come back, though. I thought they were all dead when they arrived but a little water, a little sun, and bam! They're growing almost as good as weeds. I also remember getting carrots seeds and was going to plant those tomorrow, but now I can't find the packet.
My blue mist plants are doing fine and I finally noticed some leaves on the azalea plant. One of them. The other one is dead. But I think the live one needs more sun, so I'm going to move that one. And the pampas plant is still looking dismal. I think it's gone.