7-28-22 VERMONT: The trip back was uneventful, until we arrived home. The septic system had been pumped, and the electrician found the septic pump to be OK. The pipe connecting the septic tank and the pumping tank was old cast iron that was occluded and was responsible for the back-up. It was dug out with a backhoe replaced with PVC, and it was all re-buried. A lot of the turf is in place, but some large patches are dirt. I raked out the tracks and seeded and watered.
Bigger news follows—we had a very close lightning strike and lost the following to a power surge—two TV’s, one router, one satellite box, the GFI outlet in the garage and the dog invisible fence. The Canine Company was here and fixed the fence, but now it’s alarming again. Neighbor Randy replaced the GFI. Joe and I went to Best Buy and got a new router and installed it and added two extenders. The next day we went back and got two TV’s. The one in the kitchen went in quickly, but we had a lot of trouble with the one in the new house. It turned out that the satellite box was also zapped. Dish sent a new one and I got it all set up tonight. The good news about the lightning was that it came with 3.5 inches of rain.
Outside I saw some gorgeous lamb’s ears at Gardener’s Supply and bought five. I made a new bed where golden rod grows on the pond bank. I cut down about five feet of the weeds, dug out the roots and back filled with sand and potting soil, mixed it up and planted the new babies. I also added one poppy to the new bed, and one poppy to the poppy bed. The poppies were from Browns.
The poppies are Papaver orientale, ‘Royal Wedding’ and ‘Tangerine Gem’, the lamb’s ears are Stachys byzantina, ‘Helen von Stein’.
New blooms: golden rod, red lobelia, Indian pipe, Queen Anne’s lace, yellow rocket ligularia, hyssop, white turtlehead, more phlox.
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