I really should be cutting back the Virginia creeper on the fence under a tree. I saw it was starting to grab on the branches today. Maybe after I'm done cleaning the hummingbird feeders....

Finish my weeding... :-(

Painting the new hedge gate. Painting is not my favorite activity, so it gets put on the back burner again and again. Once I start it's ok, but getting motivated. ugh.

Haven't done it yet but now at the 'can't put it off any longer' stage. And that's getting my patio area - my primary outdoor living and even gardening space - cleaned up and organized for the winter.

We seem to have started our rainy season early this year :-( September is typically one of our best months - warm, sunny and dry! It is pouring rain today, has been raining intermittently for the last week and the 10 day forecast shows much of the same...........I am not a happy camper!

I need to put chair cushions and some decor items away, stash garden tools and package up fertilizers and pest control products and move my tubs of potting mixes into a weather protected area. And decide if my collection of potted hostas look bad enough to be cut back and stored out of the way.

It's not yet cold enough to need to bring the houseplants back in for the winter but I do need to move my collection of succs and cacti out of the rain.

But it has it stop pouring before I do!! Drizzle is OK - pouring down rain is not!!

Eventually I need to cut back the hostas and do the ammonia solution treatment for slug prevention next spring, but most of the hostas still look pretty good and I have been recovering from Shingles so haven’t done anything in two weeks. Getting better, but still have neck pain. Also need to clean out annuals and perennials once spent, put away decorative stuff, cover the patio furniture at some point, put storms on the screen porch, and at least 50 more things I can’t think of right now............lol

This is me with paperwork. I am the master procrastinator at that. Not so bad at gardening but my garden is very small...

Have you seen this TED talk? Maybe you need to make friends with the panic monster in your life.

https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator?language=en

I need to divide cannas (going to give them away), pull up dying annuals, figure out how to stop these #$&* Armadillos from digging everything up, cut back some Lantana that’s taking over beds, re-do my window planter for fall/winter ... and it’s almost time to get some pumpkins and do my Fall display (old wood wagon, etc). :)

Overseed the lawn before the window closes! (Or has it already? Night temps dropping to forties this week)

Straighten up the garden shed.