A Nice Start To The Week

The weather today has been wonderful. The Grumpies (Bill and Ed above) have been busy with taking down the Halloween Walk and starting to really clear out the reception and sunken gardens. We're actually cutting back perennials in some areas as we need to open up space for lights displays as well. Janice did a nice job of coordinating the work in those gardens. We had a great turnout today and other projects included planting yews (in the wishing well garden), tidying up and Dick H. and Maury teamed up to put some rounded nuts on the new sculpture. Our volunteer contingent included Rose, Urban, Mary, Bev, Ron W., Doug, John, Charlie, Bill, Ed, Ron, Bob A., Bob T., Dr. Yahr, Dr. Gredler, Maury, Terry, Roger, Del, Jim and Mike. Sorry to any I missed!
Marv and Terry brought back more containers, lights from the Halloween Walk and will start putting up lights in earnest. Terry did some push mowing and Janice will finish. We're getting close to the last mowing in the next week or two unless it really warms up. Dr. Gredler has finished aerating the lawns and I'll finish up our fall fertilizing program yet this week. Marianne helped bring in lights from the Halloween Walk and has been working on tidying up her iris beds (see behind the guys in the top photo). Little Jerry has been in the Japanese garden and Jenny came in to continue her work on the daylily donation labels. The walnut bench (below) that Grumpy carpenters built looks great and they'll have enough lumber to build one more. The wood for these benches came from a black walnut (Juglans nigra) tree that Dr. Yahr had removed a long time ago.