Some things happening and not

 The weather has cooled again, more early morning fog and marine layer which lingers long enough to keep things a pleasant temperature during the day. 

Wonderful golden light on the tree in late afternoon. That's one of the sycamores and the leaves mostly turn brown and maybe a bit of yellow but the lighting made it glow.

And the half moon on Halloween, I had to zoom really close to like 10x to get it to show up of course but it was nice to actually see it.

Now then, as for the garden happenings, seedlings coming up and a leezard sighting!

The photo on the left is from day before yesterday and today a third seedling has popped up in the same group plus another one so four total cauliflower coming up. Seems leaving them in the hot oven like window one day so they almost dried out didn't do any harm.

 I decided to try and dig the area where I wanted to put the crate and no sooner did I use my trowel (thankfully) along the long side toward the middle, this little guy came skittering out. The soil was warm so I suspect it was just using it to sleep for the night. Gorgeous turquoise markings on the back. I tried to pick it up but of course, it was completely aware of what was going on and zipped off to leap under the jade bush. A common male Coast Range Fence Lizard (according to google image) but have never seen one with the blue spots on the back. 

Anyway, turns out there's not enough depth for putting the crate in the bed. I dug down as far as I could and hit the logs. Another inch of soil was not going to make any difference so I filled in the hole again and figure I'll just put it on top or maybe where it has been and fill it with soil to plant the potatoes. I had intentions of watering when I went out there at the time then instead, picked up my trowel and shovel. 

And finally, the butchering happened. I heard the trimmer running the other day and knew it would be chopped down. Really need to talk to the manager about letting that at least just grow into a bush as it would help keep the building a little cooler.

So now that the cauliflower have come up I need to really get going on the potatoes. I have four or five spuds in different colors and only room for three PIECES in that crate. Would rather grow them in a container as it's easier to harvest and not lose any to crop up suddenly a few months later. Oh I also figured out that a good portion of all the root masses toward the bottom of the raised bed are from the logs I put down there. I unearthed a small log about the length of my forearm and chucked it under the jade bush. Also pulled a pencil thick root as much as I could but had to cut it with my little paring knife because it wasn't budging. Hazards of using natural methods for filling the bottom of a bed, might get out next week and buy that second bag of soil so I can top off the bed.

Hope to water tomorrow and hope that lizard didn't decide to return to the raised bed and make it his home.