Anticipation....

Oh agh...we have been working in the yard clearing out flowerbeds for the past two days. The fence guys are supposed to return this afternoon to put up the fence. We are going to stain it with redwood stain after they get it up.

Last week we put out over 15 bags of leaves and this week the same or more. I gave up counting sometime yesterday. The deal is we want to get all the junk out of the flowerbeds so we can plant them with the nice new shrubs we bought a couple of weeks ago when they had a really good deal on them at the nursery. I am getting very antsy wishing the fence guys would come on....but I'm pretty sure my hands couldn't plant anything right now. They are very stiff from raking. The flower beds are tidier than they have been in a long time. It is difficult to work and keep house and the yard, too. Now that I'm no longer tied up with the working part we can get everything back into shape again.

The flower beds had gotten so overgrown with the shrubs we found all sorts of plants we had forgotten about. I need to draw up a plan to decide where everything should go. I'd forgotten about some daylillies out there. Expanding that bed would be really nice.

There is a cool front coming in tonight, but it is still very warm out. Probably why the fence guys haven't shown up. Installing fences is is a very hard way to make a living. Maybe the cool front will come in before they get here. That would make it nicer for them.

Ruby Tuesday and Happy St. Patrick's Day

Spring has sprung in the greenhouse.







Ruby Tuesday is hosted by Mary the Teach over at Work of the Poet. Stop by and sign up on Mr. Linky to play. Also, today green photos are allowed in honor of St. Patrick's Day.
The shamrocks are growing in a pot on our patio.

Prayer Shawl

I've been working on this prayer shawl recently. It will be nice when it is finished. I'm not working it in the trinity stitch so it won't have the pretty edging, but my knitting buddies told me Homespun is very difficult to read the stitches and it wouldn't really make that much difference in the long run. Sure wish it would make me look that young and pretty when I'm finished with it.

I'm about a little more than 1/3 done.

The knitting instructions are at this link. It is a free pattern from Lion Brand yarn

http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/khs-prayerShawl.html

A little west side story

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The Jets and the Sharks got ready to rumble, but that dang thumb thing messes with the switchblade holding part, too. Oh well...life goes on and they look really cool anyways.

Meanwhile, Gil Grissom after leaving CSI has found another gig and a new assistant


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Ruby Tuesday

Nellie R. Stevens holly along our back fence. It can be seen better now that we have taken down the old worn out wooden fence that was very pitiful.

My server went down before I could finish this morning.

You can see red geraniums through the greenhouse walls. There is much much more in the greenhouse now. We have planted many seeds into little grow pots. It is so exciting to watch the seedlings grow. The tomatoes have put on their secondary leaves and are starting to really look like tomato plants. Planted some coleus, chives, cilantro, and many others I just can't think of right now. We saved some coffee containers to use for mixing the Miracle Grow in. It is reaching the point where we need to move some plants out, but after being in the upper 80s for the past two weeks, it is going to get cold again tomorrow.

I did bring in some of the red geraniums for Valentine's Day, but didn't get the picture posted. Having the greenhouse has been a real blast. We bought ours for $350 at Harbor Freight, but I've seen practically the exact same thing for $850 recently...not at Harbor Freight.

I don't have a picture yet, but we bought a Meyer lemon tree Sunday to keep in a large pot on the patio. My daughter lives in Galveston and has the trees growing in her yard. On Thanksgiving she just went into the yard and picked some for our dinner. Maybe we will have some this year. There are many small ones on the tree, but it will have to live in the greenhouse during the winter up here in North Central Texas.

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I so know the feeling!!!