Most of the snow that we received Tuesday night is gone as we had a couple of days of strong sun. Yesterday, although it was heavily overcast and threatening rain most of the day, I worked outside most of the day cleaning up flower beds. I found 2 of the invasive roses under the Rhododendron and Burning Bush in the shade garden, which I dug up. I took 2 extra trips to the dump to drop off leaves, old stalks, and branches that fell thru the winter.
While I was out at the dump, I stopped at farm & garden stores (essential businesses) to get bird seed. I found a Nanking Cherry that I couldn't live without (only a yearling), lavender and another rosemary plant. I potted up the cherry for now and need to pot up the lavender and rosemary today. And, I picked up a trellis/obelisk which I had the perfect usage for.
I also stopped at the grocery store for some perishables. I had to tell an 80 year old woman to back off at the register, even though they had tape marking off 6' intervals. She got huffy and called me the distance police. I just said it was for her safety and mine. She finally backed off - I have a feeling she won't be my best friend for a while LOL.
I got the windmill placed back into the driveway garden (I take it down during the winter as it is close to the roof dumpage area and directly in the path of snow removal). I also installed the trellis/obelisk over the Sweet Autumn Clematis (after pruning it severely) so that it has something to climb and doesn't spread 6' in all directions on the ground.
I still have a bunch of yard work to do at a later time, but it felt good to get something done. Today it is rainy and will stay in the low 40's, and we are to get mixed rain/snow several days this coming week, so it may be a while before I can work in the yard again.
You have to get really tough with us octogenarians or we just blow you youngsters off! It all reminds me of when I was a pre-teen/teen-ager. The Catholic kids/kids who attended Catholic schools told us that the nuns would bring a 1-foot-long ruler to dances to assure that girls and boys weren't getting too close together.
You also reminded me that the last time your dad and I got groceries, a package of frozen cod fell out of the freezer display unit when I opened its door. Having been raised as a gentleman, one of the employees stepped over to pick it up for me. It's hard to break old habits.
I've been using wetness as an excuse not to have really started on spring cleaning in the yard, yet. It was still squishy, yesterday. I've pulled a bunch of grass out of the edges of the planting areas and raked/blown a few leaves; but, I don't think I've done enough to count. Sounds like you made a lot of progress. Let's hope your windmill is safe from dumpage for the year.
Posted by: Cop Car | March 29, 2020 at 09:45 AM
I wanted to get a bunch done because it is supposed to be wet most of the week. Rained yesterday. Thunderboomers and hail last night. This morning there was a bit of snow (not much), rained all day today.
Posted by: bogie | March 30, 2020 at 06:12 PM
Wet here, too. I heard water hitting my bedroom window at 4:30am, today, so got up to make sure that the sprinkler system was, indeed, turned OFF. Ryne (Kevin's younger "boy") had serviced our system, yesterday, and told me that he had left the system in the "off" position; but, I wanted to be sure that it was rain hitting the window above my bed. No snow, here, as our low was in the low- or mid-40s.
Posted by: Cop Car | March 31, 2020 at 10:23 AM