Today PB and I celebrated labor day by working on our front yard. This is a more challenging project than you might think, for several reasons. First of all, we live in the high desert region of central Oregon, nestled in a ponderosa pine forest at the base of the Three Sisters, mountains that are part of the volcanic Cascade range. This means 1) we live in a desert so we have to irrigate everything, 2) we live in a forest with a resident deer population that likes to wander through our yard and eat everything down to the ground, and finally 3) every time we dig a hole we dig up massive volcanic rocks (which we have put all around the house as rock walls, decorative rocks, decorative borders, shade rocks, little rocks, big rocks, etc.).
Today we planted several things that we know the deer won't eat: artemisia (Silver Mound), Russian Sage, and ordinary sage (well, they do nibble on that a little). We're also trying out Barberry and Echinacea. We have tried all kinds of things to keep the deer away, to no avail. We tried deer sprays, but just killed the plants. We don't really like to use cages, but we do have some. The persistent buggers knocked one down and ate our Mock Orange plant (supposedly deer resistant - hah!). All of the plants we use are labelled deer resistant, but usually the deer will take a bite out of everything just to see if they like it or not. There are several "resistant" plants that the deer population here seem to love -- potentilla and lavender, to name a couple.
Anyway, we also went to Redmond to the super-lame farmer's market. The only cool thing there was a guy with a mobile wood-fired pizza oven. Hand-made? Maybe.
I would kill for another day off. Unfortunately I have a bunch of court hearings tomorrow, so I guess I have to go eke out a living.
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