Up at 5:30 am to work in the yard…

OSG brought us some newspaper, with which we covered the big weed/dirt/lawn scrapings pile and have poured on mulch and water…it's about 8′ wide and about 20 feet long, and above knee high. This was a good morning's work…before work. Back to the keyboard. At least that weed-zone is handled until next year, at which time we hope it will just be a nice pile of useable good dirt.

Bumblebees have occupied one of the piles: I'm thinking of wet-newspapering and mulching that, in the theory the bees ...