Gardening update

No pictures until I find my missing camera (grrr) but we did a lot of work over the weekend that I want recorded.

April 6 -- Replanted the bulbs I dug up from the front of the house. In related news, I have blooming tulips. :)
April 10 -- Weeded the rosebushes (which are growing excellently). Planted cauliflower, peppers and tomatoes in cups to sprout inside. Mowed the lawn. Put two new azaleas out front and made a nice mulched area bounded by old cut-up branches from the tree that fell in my yard two years ago.
April 11 -- Tilled the vegetable garden area and the flower garden area. Did a lot of other yard/outside work unrelated to garden.

Yard stuff

Played in the dirt yesterday. First I planted a blackberry bush.



Then I dug up some unidentified bulbs from the front of the house. I plan to replant them over on the side, although if they don't survive it's not a tragedy since I'm not even sure what they are. In their place I'm going to put two new azaleas.



The other side of the front of the house has a lovely mature azalea already, but the patch of land in front of it looks terrible. I put phlox there last year and it is still there, but has barely grown at all. I don't know how long it takes to spread, if indeed it spreads. And it's not flowering.

The Price of Vanity

It's a gorgeous day so I broke out the new heels. I love how they look but OUCH.

Spring in the air

A two hour drive, all by yourself, on a sunny spring day, great music on the radio, sunglasses on, highway driving and no traffic problems -- priceless. I got two of those this weekend as I drove to and from a quiet girls' weekend "away from it all." Refreshing!



I hope the spring temperatures are here to stay. I'm hoping to get the garden area tilled next weekend, and I've got seeds that need to be started indoors. Trying not to be super ambitious this year with the garden, but I definitely want to do more than I managed the past couple of years. I'm planning to plant tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and beans, plus lettuce and salad greens and then maybe one or two surprises. In addition I want to do some kind of landscaping in front of the house. That's definitely a big enough goal for this year.

Catchup (mmmmmmm ketchup)

Some things that have been brewing in my head.

Things that are yummy:

Chocolate Pop-Tarts.

When you toast them, the warm gooey middle tastes just like licking brownie batter out of a mixing bowl. How can you go wrong? Yes this is my hand in the picture -- I am refraining from gobbling the rest of the pop-tart just long enough to snap this photo.

Also, the Mac Snack Wrap from McDonalds.

I could never get myself to eat the Big Mac, with its two all-beef patties, but the snack wrap goes down easy. Includes plenty of special sauce.

Songs I Like:

"The High Road" by Broken Bells



Heard this one last week and it's been playing in my head since.

Things People Shouldn't Say:

My friend Sarah last week bemoaned her colleague using the word "chillaxin'". I would like to add my disdain for my white peers who use the word "peeps" (and aren't talking about the marshmallow chickies that are in your neighborhood Walmart right now). I can't really speak to whether it's still OK for my black peers to say "peeps," but my gut says No, Not Really.

Home is wherever I'm with you

Song of my day: Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

How catchy is this! Makes you want to run around in the sun with those you love. Now all I need is some sun...

Chickadee

Here's a picture Thea took at school last week. :)