Fall Clean-up
Fall to me always starts the day after Labor Day. I am one of those creatures of habit that stops wearing white shoes as of that Monday and even puts away the light colored linen clothes. I can't help it. Old habits are hard to break.
But my latest fall joy fun started today. Cleaning up the garden. By cleaning I mean painting old patio furniture, trimming back hedges and sweeping the sand back in the grooves. Sand into grooves you ask? My courtyard is mostly Blue Stone. In between the stones we have rocky sand. When it rains that sand gets washed down the yard so I sweep it all back in the spaces. I know....obsessive sounding to some but why buy new sand if the old works fine. The hedges go nuts in the summer so now is the perfect time to say...move over, give me back my patio and yard.
Todays grunt work is done but there is so much more to come. That Creeping Fig needs a haircut, the Knockout Roses get constant "dead heading" so they bloom into winter and of course the sand....
Ahh, the joys of Saturday in the Lowcountry. Now it's time to eat my Pimento Cheese.