Thursday, September 12, 2024

 Thursday, September 12, 2024

   I had a delicious sleep before I woke up at 2 a.m. I lingered in bed for another hour and then gave up. I dressed and went to my old-lady chair. I wanted to meditate but was too agitated to do that.  I worked on updates for a good part of the day, then napped. 

   I went down along the driveway to snap more haole koa trees of all sizes with and without buds or pods. Once snapped, I applied a small squirt of Round Up on the exposed fibers. Lutz says to drill a hole in the trunk and pour in the Round-Up. I had no luck drilling holes. All I made was a shallow depression in the tree trunk. I told Lutz about my problem. He said I had the drill bit spinning in the wrong direction again. I observed the direction of the bit spin.  I suppose I could have read it wrong. All I have to do is hit the toggle switch and try the other one.

     A man I didn’t know approached me as I walked out into the driveway to do gardening. He was about to leave a note in my mailbox. He was interested in my Bismarck palm. He hoped to get a sprouting seed.  I showed him I had several that were already sprouting. He planned to come back the next day to dig them up. Was there anything he could do for me?  Yes. I could bring in some small rocks to cover the bare areas.  Rocks move. They slip and slide and downright disappear.  Nothing says in place as it should.  I needed replacement rocks. He said he lived on a construction site and could do that.