What have you done today in the Garden?

I have found the colored ones are better for mashing. I usually use the yellow fleshed ones for fries. But I don't have an air fryer or a deep fryer. I just cut them and put seasoning and oil on them, then they all go in my cast iron skillets and in the oven. They turn out great that way. I'm hoping the pink ones will be different because they're fingerlings.

 

I miss it so much! I absolutely loved that climate and location. I'm the opposite of you. Born and raised in the PNW. I am now in Milwaukee, which I think is considered midwest?

 

I've been through there in the early 70's. I hitch hiked from Mass. to B.C. Canada...in January, when I was 17. I thought it was nice but I really fell in love with B.C. Anyway, too expensive for me being on my own and on Social Security. If I were rich, different story !!

 

I managed to get the front garden sorted. Although rain has been "threatened" all we've had so far is thunder.

The tree is done.
There were a lot more, "stick-up-bits," than can be seen in the photo, particularly at the top. A case of putting the "stepladder," in two places on the lawn and then two on the "pavement" next to our low curtilage wall.
I couldn't reach the offending branches in the middle of the top even with the ladder. But I could reach them by standing under the tree and using my pruner that way. A case of walking half-way down the street a few times to see exactly where they were. I also tidied the azaleas, rhodos and viburnums.

Not the best view as there's another tree behind it in next door's garden.





Here in the UK, we still call it the "pavement," as they used to be made up of large concrete paving slabs. These are long gone.
The problem was the, "two wheels up on the kerb," of cars parked, as if you didn't and parked a car as you should, if there was another parked on the other side of the road, with our narrow suburban roads, cars could not pass between them.

Then there were lorries that did the same thing when making a delivery. Consequently, the paving stones over time often cracked due to the weight of the vehicles, so in the end, councils removed the paving stones and replaced them with tarmac.

Anyway all done and dusted. The lawn cut and the border weeded.

I even swept the pavement in front of the house and weeded the gutter.

"Back in the day," the council used to send a man with a little vehicle a couple of times a year and he'd spray the gutters with weedkiller. This doesn't happen now. They'll excuse it by saying it wasn't "eco friendly," but really they don't want to spend the money on it. Though, they do occasionally, send a vehicle to sweep the gutters. But of course with cars parked, "two wheels up on the kerb," much of it never gets swept.

It annoys me, as I never park my car anywhere other than in our drive. With most of the houses in our road, you can get two or three cars on the drives. But most don't bother if they've more than one car.

 

DHR sorry bout the council giving upon spraying the gutters and you were lucky they sprayed around your street and gutters a while back. No suck luck here had to do my own forever. With one exception the county has hired tree scalpers to remove roadside tree branches interfering with power lines.

Your Japanese maple is the bell of the ball. Just standing proud a nice specimen plant . It does look similar to one of mine
Of course this mini maple is trimmed differently but this cut lace leaf maple could be a cousin?
Japanese maple..Acer palmatum 'Otto's Dissectum'

 

@Doghouse Riley When I lived in Germany they parked half on the sidewalk along the side streets. I was appalled !!
In the US you'd a great big parking ticket for parking on the "sidewalk". Sidewalk because it's the place designated for pedestrians to walk along the side of the road. The "pavement" is what's put on the road as a surface to drive on. You get your driveway "paved" if you don't want to park in dirt.

When I first heard of people in UK walking on pavement I wondered why they didn't install sidewalks because on major roads here, like highways, there are no sidewalks and if you walk on the pavement you are in the right-of-way of the motor vehicles.

Very confusing until you realize the differences !!