mammoth sunflower- pine tree

the mammoth sunflower, the cut pine trees, barbra the cat & me 7.7.11

i woke @ 2PM and did drawings on my gtablet and phone while having coffee. balfour called & came out to have tea. he'd come & called @ noon & i didn't hear him [i always turn my ringer off by my bed] he went home and called after 2... then came back!

we went to lowe's and got malathion, hoses, and various stuff, so i could spray down all the pine trees around/between the houses; so as to prevent losing more to pine beetles. stopped @ mac's on winnsboro road for last minute supplies before coming back to the little houses on the prairie. surveyed the sunflowers progress and the pine wood left from the tree service. guess i'll have a nice BIG bonfire in october.

i climbed the ladder with hose & sprayer [probably mixing the stuff WAY too strong] and sprayed & soaked 7 or 8 big pines- up to about 16 feet up the trunk. JB spotted me & helped w the hoses. i hate chemicals but this is preventive medicine. i hate losing these big pines to bugs- and have lost many. don't want to lose more- or pay to have them cut down.

later i made dinner: some salad made of lettuce & mustard greens from the garden- and cabbage, onion, ceci, garlic, tofu in hot green curry sauce- w/ rice. 

jb staying over on the sofa, leaving for memphis in the morning to fetch ms ellie. if i didnt have a world of work to do i'd ride with him. we plan to go see elvis in little rock before i leave the building for 2+ months in europe

watching 'blackmail' alfred hitchcock. well, i am, jb's already conked out. barbra on his leg. keeping the girls in tonight so they don't get poisoned or murdered... life in the woods

jimmy balfour @ chez moi 7.7.11

barbra in the pinepile