Birdfeeding

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Today is partly sunny, humid, and hot.

I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I spread a bag of potting soil over the telephone pole garden.

My partner Doug has mowed paths around the yard, so we walked to see those.  Progress.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I sowed black hollyhock and 'Indian Spring Mixed Colors' hollyhock in the telephone pole garden.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I sowed 'Hopi Landrace' and 'Autumn Beauty' sunflowers in the telephone pole garden.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen a pair of cardinals and a mourning dove in the forest garden.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I sowed my developing 'Summer of Love Landrace' and 'Evening Sun Mixed Colors' sunflowers in the telephone pole garden.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I sowed 'State Fair Mix' zinnias and Charleston Food Forest zinnias in the telephone pole garden.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I sowed my developing 'Shirley' zinnias, 'Mammoth Excelsior Mix' stocks, scarlet sage, and 'Knee High Fragrant Mix' sweet peas in the telephone pole garden.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I sowed 'Bloody Mary' nasturtium, 'Tall Mix' centaurea, 'Stars and Stripes' mirabilis, and 'Select Superbissima Mix' painted tongue  in the telephone pole garden.  That's the end of the rows.  I still want to sow Shithouse Marigolds around the edges, and it needs to be watered.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I sowed Shithouse Marigolds around the edges of the telephone pole garden, then watered the whole thing.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I watered plants in the house yard.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I watered plants in the new picnic table garden.

I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 6/7/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

Fireflies are coming out.

I am done for the night.