The garden seems to have weathered the summer pretty well. I was out there watering a couple of weeks ago and everything looked good. I picked some fruits of the Opuntia robusta and made a wonderful dark pink dye from them for some wool yarn. I need to refine my technique though, because I keep finding glochids in the yarn!

We need to start working out there now that the weather is getting nice again. If you are willing and able to work with me in the garden, please let me know so I can set up an email list (or phone list, if you don't have email...) You can also tell Stephen at the meetings and he will let me know. I can work on either Saturdays or Sundays, so let me know which day is better for you. I have worked on Sundays in the past, because I sometimes have other activities to do on Saturdays, but I plan to make a schedule of workdays so that there will not be conflicts. I would like to say that we will work on the first Saturday (or Sunday) of the month and just leave it at that. Let me know if the Saturday or the Sunday is better for you and I will set that as the day for working.

Some of the jobs we need to do in the garden are: weed, prune, put in walkways, finish the "Old World" retaining wall, install the remaining railroad ties, and I hope, plant more succulents!