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<\/a>More doing. \u00a0A couple of weeks ago our dogs, imagining we were bored, I think, decided to dig under the orchard fence rather than vault over it where I had put the electric fence. \u00a0Thing is, they succeeded.<\/p>\n(a 2010 effort, getting ready for the Olympic digging)<\/p>\n
The first route underneath resulted in a shallow cave under the second of two blueberry mounds that we have, leaving them in danger of collapse. \u00a0That was when it was too hot to move, so indolence carried the task through until today. \u00a0Got out the shovel and reversed the dog’s action carried out with their two front feet. \u00a0If it was Vega and Rigel, and I’m sure it was, then they probably took turns, as I have seen them do numerous times. \u00a0One gets tired, the other steps in to continue the task. \u00a0Two big dogs can move a lotta sand fast that way.<\/p>\n
Digging underneath the fence requires a different strategy than electric fence since I don’t want to run a low wire-rope. \u00a0Too much trouble with plants, snagging, that sort of thing. \u00a0My method in this instance is to bury chicken wire after having wired it to the larger mesh we have between the wooden rails. This works.<\/p>\n
The California fence that we had put in for the vegetable garden, five foot tall chain link in (California fence)<\/p>\n Also collected the onions whose tops had fallen over, the sign for harvesting, put up the old screen door on supports in the near garden shed and laid out this year’s yellow onion crop for drying. \u00a0After about a week they’ll go downstairs into our small root cellar simulacrum. \u00a0The yellows keep best. \u00a0Reds don’t keep at all; whites in between.<\/p>\n Finished weeding the mounds around our fruit trees and the blueberry patches, helped Kate start the mower and came in. \u00a0Kate came in a few minutes later to say she had disturbed the ornery bees. \u00a0Two stings. \u00a0We have one hyper-vigilant colony and one almost somnolent. \u00a0Odd.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hiroshima Moon More doing. \u00a0A couple of weeks ago our dogs, imagining we were bored, I think, decided to dig under the orchard fence rather than vault over … Continue reading More Doing<\/span>
\n<\/a>black with red cedar posts, top rails and bottom boards, would have worked better here, too, but we didn’t choose it.<\/p>\n