Clematis: Clematis chat - heading into winter, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
The bleach is back where it belongs and the glass cleaner is no longer on display. The vacuum has been put away and I intend to spend hours here on the laptop even if I fall asleep. I thought I'd expire with all the cleaning fumes.

The glorious part of cleaning after the storm was cleaning the rear 9 kitchen windows that had been plastered with tiny bits of leaves. I used the flat kitchen "mop" (it isn't a mop but I can't think of the name of it) and used that, dipped into warm water and a few drops of bleach with some Dawn detergent, and the windows sparkled when I finished. I do like cleaning those windows but now all hoses have been put away so next spring I guess I'll clean the other 25.

I do miss the nice parts of summer but not the awful heat waves we had when I and others were prisoners of our homes.

Now I'm transforming the former vegetable garden into "The Park" since Jack no longer wants to raise vegetables and fight the crows who destroyed the tomato crop, the fantastic soil that produced many more cucumbers than we could believe, the heat that destroyed the peas and beans, etc. It's too much angst for him. I weeded the entire area and began planting - so far, so good. I'll get back in there tomorrow to see what else I can add. It's great fun!

This is what I started with and I do have follow-up photos but can't find out how to post them yet.