Two lush-ous Lumps

Another goody for certain friends:

He's at it again.

The Chief is building me another bed. The south corner of our front yard is about the only patch where I can plant full-sun flowers, but has quite a slope to it and is 99% clay, despite my efforts over the past several years to improve it. The Chief has now used some landscaping logs to build up that corner. He dumped in 5 bags of topsoil and a bit of peat moss today, is going back for more topsoil tomorrow to fill it in and top it up. Then we'll replant the phlox that was there, and I've got 2 ice plants I picked up a few weeks ago that will also go in. God willing, they'll do better with some proper dirt; I'd love to see them thrive and fill that corner with color. Pictures to come once the plants are moved into their new home.

Getting a trainee?

The boss has been doing performance chats now that HR has made her official; my turn this morning. Among other topics was that I may be "assigned" to mentor someone who'll be spending a few weeks in our office (he's touring all sections in the division before going to a staff job). Depending on his experience, I may be the one who gets to help him ejumacated in how we do things. Boss told me this would be "because you did so well with [intern]", which was nice to hear.