Butrfly's Wonderings

Not much going on around here. We're still in the midst of a 12 day heat wave with record breaking high temps on all but one day. Wednesday, it was 87 in Citrus Heights. Been getting up early morning for my walk around the neighborhood. It's been absolutely beautiful. Right now my thighs are killing me. I changed my exercise routine a bit and am finding several muscles that I didn't know were being ignored before.

The current gardening project is finding an inexpensive way to create a drip irrigation system for my container garden out on my balcony. What I've come up with so far is using the garden hose to span the distance from the water faucet to the location of my container garden and then connecting drip irrigation tubing to the hose and snaking the tubing around to all my containers. Am heading to Orchard Supply Hardware this weekend to see if I can find all the components I'll need. If it works, I'll probably duplicate it for my house plants when I group them together in and around the kitchen sink to survive my 3-week absence. Am also doing some major repotting of plants and researching websites to make a list of slug-resistant plants to purchase to replace what the slugs destroyed last year.