The first flowers of Spring

I have just spent the last hour in my garden. :-)

Whee! :-D

I have taken down part of the broken trellis (the other half is still up, but mostly just needs to be pulled out of the ground in order to be taken down), and have cleared away the rotting vines of last year's squash and morning glories, the stands of yarrow and rudabekia and echanecia. I've trimmed the tiny tea roses, re-strung the grape-vines so that they follow the banister (they were on the trellis before) and cut down last years hollyhocks. Two flocks of Geese came in from the west while I was out there. :-) Yay! :-D I said hello. :-)


I have three small, purple flowers (Chionadoxa, maybe?) sprouting and getting ready to bloom, and three or four stands of tulips coming up already. Th new leaves of my watchmen hollyhocks have already begun to grow and green. As has the new yarrow (which appears to be an ever-green -- how neat), and the forget-me-nots and the first few campanelles. I believe the day-lilies have also begun to sprout (although I'm not totally positive that this is what they are. Chances are good. :-) Even the tea roses have the beginnings of green leaves. :-)


I have already put down some Heavenly-Blue morning glory seeds (to grow with, I hope, the self-seeding Grampa Ott's purple morning glories... assuming the Heavenly Blues actually sprout. I have kept some extras just in case).


The next step will be turning the compost. This will involve getting out the pitch fork and shovelling all the not-yet-rotted stuff into a new (temporary) heap, making a pile of handy good dirt to spread around the vegetable patches, and then re-forking the not-yet-rotted stuff (and the bag of peat moss, I think, and the paper grocery bag full of ashes) back into the designated compost area. :-) I think I'll also be pouring some corn mean onto the vegetable patches (I may toss some of the ashes around the blueberry bush... we shall see. :-)



In other news: I had a lovely time with Ami_B on Sunday. :-) (I made roast beef! Yay! And sauteed greens with mushrooms! Yay! I love greens with mushrooms! :-)
We yacked and yammered about all sorts of things, and it was wonderful. :-D
Yay Ami! :-D


Paul is coming home today. :-)

I have changed the sheets. We will be having roast chicken, I think, tonight. (Granted, it'll be roast chicken *breast* rather than whole roast chicken, but still. It'll work. :-) I think there will be red peppers added, and probably squash. There will be blueberry pie (from a store, I confess) for dessert.
OR
There will be mango triffle (home made... Hm...)
I haven't decided yet... :-)

I am half-inclined to make some pancakes for lunch. :-)

To do today:

1) Get my T2202A form printed. (I still don't know how to get my printer to acknowledge its new cartridge...)

2) Do two loads of laundry.

3) Shower.

4) Meet Paul at the Train station (4:30pm).


I am inclined to make a necklace of rose quartz, amethyst and sodalite, and maybe some pearls strung on wire. I think this could be quite pretty. :-) I will probably not do it for a while, though. :-) ($$$)

Anywhoo. Time for me to get my laundry started. :-)

- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)