We’re having the palm tree in our front yard removed.
The city is also going to cut down the Eugenias in our parkway strip soon. Then the Deodar Cedar will be the focal point of the yard.
Jill Doughtie
Doughtie is pronounced DOW-tea.
Clearing out the front yard
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Monday’s lunch came from the garden.
We planted potatoes by setting a few old potatoes with lots of eyes on the ground and dumping buckets of dirt over them. Potato plants grew and then died back. I went into the back yard with my gardening fork and lifted these out of one of the dirt mounds. I think there are still twice as many left in the ground. I figure they’ll keep well there, and if they sprout more eyes they will already be in the right place.
These artichokes grew along the side of the house. I served them with lemon juice from a neighbor’s lemons and my favorite California olive oil from Beyond the Olive. I’ve never tasted artichokes this fresh before, and they were so tender and flavorful that they almost didn’t need a sauce.
Monday’s lunch
I’ve been sewing bright colored seam binding around the edges of my cleaning rags, which are mostly retired washcloths and squares of retired towels.
I like the way they look when they’re hanging on the clothes line. They used to have ragged edges, and they would fray in the washer and dryer or look embarrassingly messy drying on the line in the back yard. These look pretty. And if they get mixed up with the regular laundry, it’s easy to keep retired washcloth cleaning rags from being confused with washcloths in good standing.
ellen’s curious why it’s being removed.
i love how tall and big the picture is.
It was dropping palm fronds on our car and denting it (twice!). The roots were clogging up our sewer line. The palm fronds were growing into the cedar tree. It constantly needed to be trimmed. The falling palm fronds would be dangerous if they fell on a person. It was messy and expensive. And rats were living in it, too.
Goodbye palm tree!
so long fair well… or is it good riddance
That looks like a lot of work!
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