Seems like I've been absent forever, but it's really only been about 6 months. In January, I decided to take advantage of being at home and get my old deck rebuilt into something more satisfactory and structurally competent. As it happens, this became an opportunity to relandscape as well. Blogging? Fuhgeddaboutit. No time.
My goals for the project have been twofold: firstly, to rebuild the deck as a three-season outdoor room, and secondly, to replant the lawn (mostly moss) as an organic urban farm and low maintenance native plant area. The deck with partial roof was completed just a month ago, and the potager garden is laid out, planted and beginning to flourish. There's even the start of an organic compost heap.
Pavement and native plantings are on-hold until my mood realigns with my ambition. On the positive side of the ledger: I've lost some weight and my arms look positively ripped from all the digging. On the negative side, I've got tendonitis in both my wrists and an elbow. S'okay. I can live with a wrist brace and bare earth until Fall. And pavements need to be planned anyway; finally going to make use of all the mismatched paver and tile remnants the former owner stashed around here. It'll be artsy.
Nature is not sleeping meanwhile, though the cool, wet Seattle Spring has set plant growth back as much as 6 weeks according to some. Can I possibly win the race to get the weeds pulled before they go to seed this year? I'm certainly going to try, bad wrists notwithstanding. And if the sun will ever shine for more than a day at a time, I may get the new construction weather sealed too. I think I may be gone awhile some more.
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