Oh hello. Please don’t mind me, I’ve just gotten back from vacation, have some personal stuff going on and just can’t seem to pull my head out of my ass long enough to be a blogger again. Case in point, I missed Tuesday’s post all together.
It’s not like I didn’t know it was Monday. Hellooooo…I had the day off, I knew I had a post deadline for 4Knines, but somehow, I just lost my mind and when I woke up on Tuesday, I was like….whoops. Missed that one.
So rather than stress about it and struggle to throw a post together, I decided I’ll just post today and call this week done. Not counting tomorrow’s FUF post, of course. (Providing I can get my shit together.)
Anyhow, I hope at some point I’ll be able to pull some posts together that are rolling around in my head, and I pray to DOG that I can get around and visit some blogs, but it’s damn hard right now, so please forgive me.
I did want to share something with you though.
We have a bit of a wild back yard. It’s super hilly and steep and there are lots of trees and lots of shrubs/ground cover/weeds.
SO MUCH. Usually Hubby gets out there in early summer and mows/weed whacks it all down, but this year he left one side of the hill wild.
Typically I hate this. I mean, there’s always ONE house on the street that looks like hillbillies live there (amIright?) And I damn sure don’t want it to be MY house.
I’m not sure if it’s my general “MEH” attitude, lack of interest, or because I’ve just literally given all my fucks away, and therefore have no more fucks to give, but the other day I mentioned to Hubby about just leaving the area wild. I know, I can’t even believe it myself.
My justification is based upon an article I read about how American’s obsessions with having grass yards is helping kill off the bee population. Without flowers, the bees don’t pollinate, without pollination stuff doesn’t grow, without stuff growing, well food that feeds humans and cattle won’t grow. At least, I’m pretty sure it’s something like that. (Not as detailed and technical as my high school science class, but you get the point.)
According to Michigan State University this is a bumble bee.
Anyhoo, so my idea is to try and get the majority of weeds out of the area, and leave the flowers that are there, there, and maybe throw in some wild flower seeds and see what happens.
Or maybe I’ve just been looking at too many of Mary Hone’s photos of the wilderness and my wanderlust is showing.
The left photo shows the yard as it really is, the middle photo is some yellow flowers and the one on the right shows the type of fencing we’ll install to keep the muncher out.
Either way, it looks like we’ll be putting a small fencing around the area to keep Delilah out. (She loves to hunt for eatables in the yard.)
It’s certainly not The Challenges of Gardening With Dogs – Are Your Plants Safe? By Jan at Wag ‘N Woof Pets, but it’s a post and right now, it’s just the best I can do.
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