Waiting For My Ya Ya

Good morning friends,

Well, it's another cool day here and it's raining which is great for my new plantings but doesn't do much to lift my spirits.

I'm ready to get some bulbs ordered for fall planting so that I can have more color in the spring. Some tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, etc for along the flagstone steps, a bunch of different groundcovers for the hill to kill and some things for the cottage cutting garden that will go into the backyard next year.

My dr. appt with the gyn is this afternoon and I hope it's all good news. The incision is about 1/2 healed so I think one more week will do it. I will update all of you as soon as I know what the scoop is. After the dr., it's off to grab a quick dinner and then go to the Buckwheat Zydeco show this evening. I'm so excited but I know I'll want to dance. I'll just have to settle for the slower tunes lol!! I have a review to write of the show and hope to get some good pictures and an autograph but we'll see how it all shakes out.

What are the rest of you up today???

Nothing Says I Care More Than Flowers and A Kindness

thought I'd better capture some images of the flowers I've been getting for get well cheer-ups before the blooms started fading. Aren't they gorgeous???

How Does Your Garden Grow?

I hope the morning light finds you well-rested and in good spirits.


Well the "hill to kill" is slowly getting tamed. The unfamiliar should know a few things about the "hill to kill". The hill is 30 feet long, 2 -1/2 feet wide and a 6 ft. drop onto the neighbor's driveway if you lose your footing. So we decided a couple of years to fill that side in with ground covers, etc and naturalize it so we don't have to mow it (eventually). So following that plan, last weekend's purchases are mostly for that hill.

We got all of the flowers I bought last weekend planted and the hill to kill is shaping up. I put the pansies and petunias along the steps that go down the hill and the lisianthus, alstilbe, sage, etc around it. The lilies I planted last year are really taking off which is awesome!!! The violets are really taking off on the hill and are looking soooooooo pretty-see!!!!

I saw the ferns and hostas peeking up a bit. The columbine went in the back yard around the tree and the hen and chicks and moss roses went into the rock garden in the back. Landscaping is slowwwwllllly shaping up. The balloon flowers are kind of hanging out and hopefully will take off well; I bought some bluish/lavender ones.

I want to get more hostas, columbine, and lilies of the valley for the back yard along the fence line. My peonies I got last year from my friends are budding!!! I can hardly wait!!!!

I want to try my hand at container gardening and plant some calla lilies. They are soooooooooo pretty.

The tutoring candidate comes by today at 5 and we'll see how it goes. I hope we communicate fairly well because I'd like to understand the remaining concepts this quarter and have continuity of tutoring set up for next quarter.

Tomorrow after church I'm heading to the garden center again and picking up some potting soil, spray weed and feed, grub and snail kill, and hopefully, an electric hedge trimmer. I want to rent a tiller so I can tear up the area out by the curb and plant flower seeds in it without doing the back breaking digging. My knee is quite cranky today!!!!