City of Brotherly Love

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend. Sue and I were in Philly for the majority of it for the wedding of one of Sue's high school friends, Amy (and her new husband, Mark). Fun times. We went to an art festival thingie, to see another of Sue's friend's (Kit's) jewelry exhibition on Saturday, hit up a big flea market on Sunday, had some nice meals along the way, and got to catch up with a bunch of Sue's cool gang.

To avoid traffic and have time to get some things done around the house, we left Philly at 4:30AM yesterday and got home about five hours later. It was tiring, but we're happy we did it. It was glorious outside yesterday, and we got to enjoy it.

We did a bunch of stuff outside. All these maple helicopters have been dropping into the gutters, and it's making us feel like they'll clog up the downspouts and sewer lines and force us to call Roto-Rooter (June 19, 2008) again. So we did a little repair and installation job on our gutter netting - tomorrow's post - and we renovated the moss slurry sun. Regular readers will remember the sun from way back when.

Well, it was supposed to puff up in vital green moss after five weeks, but I think the original slurry was not holding enough water. It kept drying out, even though I was trying to water it morning and night. So we got some heavier firepower: Horta-Sorb SM.


The stuff is kind of sketchy, but apparently it's effective. It makes these little firm pillows of moisture, and apparently roots can access the water. (In fact, the first time, I put too much powder in, and the blender filled up with the little pillows. Craziness.) Here's the manufacturer's spec sheet.

The mosses I got from Ellen's and Julie's yards. A cool collection, I think, though they're trying to get rid of it.


Moss, water, Horta-sorb, and a little beer. I hope the moss likes Brooklyn Lager.







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A few pics from the City of Brotherly Love.