First Real Day of Working in the Yard

Ok...Ok...I just got started. The first day that was decent outside and I began the work in the garden. Joe was cleaning the garage and hauling things to the curb to be picked up. I looked out the window and saw him working so hard...where are my favorite gardening clothes? I have spent the last two days bringing summer clothes up from the wardrobes in the basement...I really wanted to just curl up with a good book, but the sun was out and here goes. I had hung my gardening jacket on the hook in the mudroom just yesterday. It is denim and looks like pillow ticking. It is at least 34 years old. Still good enough to wear along with my old, old, jeans and a sweatshirt (Comic Relief written on it) My sturdy tennies and brand spankin new gloves in a powder blue. Got the picture? This is the first spot that I cleaned up. The sedums needed a trimming. Aren't sedums wonderful? They take anything that mother nature sends them. Tough plants...my kind of plants. No sissy plants for me...If they don't do well...out they go.

Here...now don't they look better? Before long they will be huge and will completely fill in that area.

The first lilies that I have seen. I have found that I love lilies...the Japanese beetles don't bother them. Tough plants.

I moved this pot to the front...all the way from the back. I want to put a yellow tomato in it. I dumped a bag of red mulch and started to spread it around. I need more.

Here is another picture of the same area. When I moved here I hated the red mulch, but have grown to love it. I do like it after it's been down awhile and loses some of the bright color. Next I moved to the woods. No pictures. I dumped my wheel barrow and got the weed whacker going. It looks pretty good back there. Remember how far I have to walk? I came up to the house...exhausted and found that I had left a rake back there. Another long walk. When I got to the front I found a pile of branches that Audra and Keely and I had picked up yesterday. We just put them in a pile for today. By now, Joe was in the house and I decided to just leave the wheel barrow and branches there for another time.

Balisha