I took today off, braced the heat for some pics of my flowers, beds, and weeds to share with you all.

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Not that I've not already had a lot of days off but the main reason we're not working is that I thought I'd need to help my husband get things around for his first passport and one of my crew can't work past a certain time today. I have work for the next two days maybe and I should have a new employee beginning next week and I should try to work them as much as possible from next week on. My husband did the passport app online and printed it off. He made an appt for tomorrow morning and was stressing about making copies that he needed. He ended up doing it himself. I intended to write that I'm excited we have the funds in the bank so I can pay the quarterly taxes without needing to borrow money from family. That's always a blessing although they're willing to help when needed. As I'm able to work longer which right now will be me mainly supervising the job our crew does, then we may get back to what's normal for the summer months as far as income is concerned. All the rain we had from winter to last month impacted us being able to work much and then my surgery affected it more. So now I'm going to talk about my pics. Since I can't see what order I put them in you may need to do some detective work. We got some free wood chips from church free for the taking. I told some other parishioners about it and it soon disappeared faster than I was able to get it. I found out the pastor had more than he needed at his house so I was able to make a few more trips to get more there too. As you can see in the center image there is still a pile left near our ramp and weeds. Maybe once I'm more limber and it cools down well get more done but I may hold off until next year so we can eliminate the weeds better before distributing the rest of the chips around the flower beds. We put the weed barrier down in three areas and covered it with the chips. My sister said she only uses the barriers under stones, what are your thought on that? Someone else has it under stones and she still gets the weeds so maybe it's not perfect or it takes years to get rid of the weeds perhaps? Oddly enough, the area under the tree had weeds before we started and that has the barrier and the chips on top yet no weeds are coming up there. The area outside my window is loaded with weeds. That's the same center photo. I was going to do some extra weeding there but didn't want to have to traverse over the wood chip pile nor do I need to fall, so I'm waiting even though I would love to get my hands in there. The two areas in the other side of the porch isn't quite so bad. The one with the chips has some weeds. Unfortunately, there's a lot of, what I call weed grass growing where it got weeded we just didn't put any barrier down yet. We may work it with weed killer or preen and see if that helps get rid of more. The other two pics are of my day lilies. I also have several dianthus although they needed to be watered and I've not watered anything yet this year. It's an ongoing battle, that's for sure.