Mercury in retrograde!

Today I discovered that a long email I wrote yesterday, with three pictures, and points and questions, never went AND never got saved to drafts.

THEN I attempted to send another email and tried THREE times and lost it each time. (At least I found them later.)

??

Then my final meeting of the day, the poor guy meeting with us kept having trouble getting in online and was late. He felt bad because it was his first impression. I teased him and said it was Mercury in retrograde. The people from California liked it.

If the UK has a wind drought, is that Mercury in retrograde? 

The UK had a wind drought this year, and in 2018! 

I never heard the term, "wind drought." I thought the man using it was making a joke. 

The Homeowner's Association had another arborist out today but his quote was over $7,000, for a number of trees, so they'll have several arborists come out and give us quotes. 

I've been going out into the yard all week and killing vinca. It is so odd considering how happy I was to plant it in the first place and see it grow. 

My yard, to be my beautiful garden, is in the extra. I have a bed of shade plants in the middle partially under the deck, with a brown dog to the right. The dog doesn't stay in the same place all the time though. You see different hostas, Japanese painted fern, and Solomon Seal. You also see residual vinca. In front of them is cardboard to kill off the vinca, with rocks that used to be the border from my other bed before the wall construction. 

The bottom shows the outline of the garden to be, with lovely flowing paths to the gates and a massive blue lace-cap hydrangea on the right. On the left is a non-blooming climbing hydrangea with gorgeous deep green leaves. The weird green is my very last attempt to grow grass by the gates, an attempt that is not working, but I don't care, because grass is stupid, especially in places it was clearly never intended to be.

Most impressive of all is the incredible amount of cardboard that you can see I am growing. Have you ever seen so much cardboard, coupled with newspaper, growing in a yard? The plants against the wall aren't planted yet, they are just hanging out. 

You get rid of the grass idea and you have so much room!