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best laid plans........yeah right

Category: springtime stuff | Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:52 pm

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it's funny, you spend the winter going through ideas in your head, and when the weather breaks, and you start your new season, the things you thought you would be doing turn into something else. that is ok, i just take it in stride. i'm waiting for my load of manure, and hopefully top soil will go on sale soon. i don't want to get into too much, until i get a starter supply of these things. this year i have a new toy! my brother bought me a wheelbarrow! i'm so excited...considering i did most of the hauling with an old orange plastic sled..it is still useful, but has seen better days. i was perfectly content with it and even have a spare up in the attic! but now the possibilities are endless.
i decided to move my daisies to the corner of the shed and ditch the enormous hollyhock (maybe i can find a home for a piece of it in the empty lot next door). i'm think i'm going to put the blanket flower in the wagon. better view for me, then the daisies can get as tall as they want and still cover the corner of the shed, which is ugly. the only other definite (so far) is to move my tulips from the front of the house to the back. i don't think they like it there. and if they don't bloom in the back, well, then they are toast.
have been stocking up on seeds...sunflowers, viola, sweet william, wild flower, and of course cosmos. it is supposed to rain/snow at least through tomorrow, and then rain for the next couple of days. probably won't get much done except poop patrol. but that is o.k. too. it is still only april.

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patience - (part 2)

Category: springtime stuff | Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:08 pm

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with the weather being ahead of itself this year, patience is the word. i can't get too ahead of myself, we still could get a frost/freeze. but, small chores this spring are in order. i look at it this way..i just have more time to accomplish the spring cleanup! my timing, is based on when the market starts bustling with vendors.(i figure when they start selling, it is probably time to get the 'gears' moving. well, i was running my saturday errands, and it seems i always drive down the road where the market is, and much to my surprise, there is some activity. not a full blown open market yet, but the vendors are starting to come in from the farms, selling some things, (i'm not sure what, i didn't stop), and i also noticed the one garden center is busy doing something, but everything is kind of covered, so you don't really see what (they are not open yet, just getting ready). i was excited!! with the beautiful sunshine today, and not much wind, would be a perfect day to spend in the back yard, i need to rake outside the fence and maybe do some weeding...i've seen some monster dandelions and queen ann's lace that i should pull (though i do like the queen ann's lace, just not in the middle of a flower bed).

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