Wonderful Sunday
It is beautiful,warm and sunny today. The place is beautiful. After digging out mounds of weeds the flowers are beginning to show their beauty. It was not a good time to be on the road but with all the rain we had here it is doubtful that we would have been interested in anything but staying dry and warm.
Now I am beginning to start on the new deck outside the door to Atley's room. It is only going to be 6x8 so it is not a big job. When I finish this I will put steps down to the yard and then a board walkway to the steps off the other deck. Soon we will have a place where our outdoor sitting tent can stand without danger of blowing away and we can eat out in the yard??? but that is the future. Meanwhile we enjoy hostas which are just beginning to bloom. The varigated ones come to blossom first then the plain green. The plain green are enormous again. Every year we split them and move parts to different places and by the end of the summer they are enormous again. Astilbe are starting to come, Perennial geranium are full and hearty and errupting with pretty pinkish floweres so they look like huge flowered balls. Our Asiatic lillies are now coming out also with striking orange, yellow and red/orange blossoms. We expect to see more of these as the month goes on.
We have a new ride on mower...Audrey's baby and she is enjoying the fact that she can keep ahead of the mowing. I have the push mower for work around the edges and in tight spots and it is a delight to start. It actually starts on the first pull of th cord and no long electrical extentions to worry about. But with the price of gas even this pleasure is somewhat reduced. Then there is the polution...get serious why put a damper on such fun. And it is fun watching the flowers grow, seeing which plants take and flourish and which don't. Then trying again with those that don't and encouraging those that do. Fun fun fun. I would never have guessed as a youngster watching my grandmother tend her poenies and pansys that I would some day look forward to mine.
Getting old is an adventure and a more pleasant one than growing up as a young person. Genug
Now I am beginning to start on the new deck outside the door to Atley's room. It is only going to be 6x8 so it is not a big job. When I finish this I will put steps down to the yard and then a board walkway to the steps off the other deck. Soon we will have a place where our outdoor sitting tent can stand without danger of blowing away and we can eat out in the yard??? but that is the future. Meanwhile we enjoy hostas which are just beginning to bloom. The varigated ones come to blossom first then the plain green. The plain green are enormous again. Every year we split them and move parts to different places and by the end of the summer they are enormous again. Astilbe are starting to come, Perennial geranium are full and hearty and errupting with pretty pinkish floweres so they look like huge flowered balls. Our Asiatic lillies are now coming out also with striking orange, yellow and red/orange blossoms. We expect to see more of these as the month goes on.
We have a new ride on mower...Audrey's baby and she is enjoying the fact that she can keep ahead of the mowing. I have the push mower for work around the edges and in tight spots and it is a delight to start. It actually starts on the first pull of th cord and no long electrical extentions to worry about. But with the price of gas even this pleasure is somewhat reduced. Then there is the polution...get serious why put a damper on such fun. And it is fun watching the flowers grow, seeing which plants take and flourish and which don't. Then trying again with those that don't and encouraging those that do. Fun fun fun. I would never have guessed as a youngster watching my grandmother tend her poenies and pansys that I would some day look forward to mine.
Getting old is an adventure and a more pleasant one than growing up as a young person. Genug
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