The Yard is Coming Alive....

We have had some rain - enough for now.  I will be more than pleased if it

waits now until after our graduation celebration....

Yardwork hasn't always been a priority for us - oh yes we have always mowed the

grass but until a few years ago I only tried a few small flower gardens.

I now have a perennial flower garden which seems to expand each year - I have

tried wildflowers with not more than 1-2 years of success.   I currently have

some of the grandparents' peonies that I am babying to grow... and have

some calla lilies from a great aunt to get planted...

The peonies are getting taller - they have flowered each year with at least

one bud so hopefully this year we get more.

There is a lot of green popping up all over - in the beginning I had to have a

map to keep track of all my plants....  and then I became delinquent in

keeping track of what went where.... so this plant seems to be where the "honeysuckle"

plant usually grows...we will see... then again it doesn't look right to be the honeysuckle...

it doesn't really matter - as long as it grows, flowers and isn't a weed.

The flowering crab (blossom tree) is getting bigger buds.... this tree

isn't doing very well - last year the main trunk portion at the top of

the tree was dead and now more branches are dead - although it is

covered with buds....

My attempt to having "creeping phlox" creeping by the driveway

is about the same - it seems like the plants I put there several

years ago don't seem to get any larger and I only see a couple

others  starting - they will survive only if Hubby and the

lawnmower don't find them...   These phlox came with us

from our first home fifteen years ago...

I am hoping that these gems - there are thousands of them - I am

hoping that they wait until Memorial Day  - they open up and let all

the green pollen escape from them --  covering everything with pollen

and making many folks miserable.

 And these yellow beauties will hopefully meet their demise

in the next day or so - our yard (not a fancy yard - but a yard

none the less) have been covered with the dandelions - tonight

Hubby sprayed them - we will see what happens...

Say goodbye - lil' yellow fella!



Then and Now....

One week from today our youngest will be graduating

from High School.... after thirteen years of school

and some preschool days the time has come...

It doesn't seem that long ago that this little gal graduated

from preschool with her cap made out of

construction paper along with the

tassel made out of string and a color crayon...

"then"

The days when school wasn't even

in sight - her 1st Birthday!



"now"

Reaching goals and following dreams!

Spring - It Is Here!

Our beautiful weekend started a little slow with some rainy

weather on Saturday morning - but by afternoon we were headed

outdoors to do yardwork.

The straw was removed from the flowerbeds this past week

so I took a walk to see how things were going....

It is finally spring -

-the blossom tree buds-

-the what I call weeping fire bush buds-

unfortunately the other bush didn't fair well last year

and now this year only had buds at the top - so

we removed it from the yard.

-the peonies-

-the daylilies-

-a little bit of grass that we planted last year-

-and some iris'-

The grass was  mowed today for the first time

this spring - it smells so good!

So many other projects took up the weekend - wait

until you see my "something new" that

Hubby made for me!

I'll share went it is completed   ;)

Busy as a Bee!

Just thought I would stop in - I've been trying to

keep up with the blogging world and have been

checking in on you guys - it looks like I am not

the only one that has been busy!

I am counting the days to our daughters graduation

and for  summer to make its presence in the

North Country......

We did get Lineman Son all moved in

And the last few weeks have been more cleaning

and graduation preparation....  I have many projects

to share with y'all later and some little

makeover projects...

Kodi is continuing to grow... and she has made

friends with Tigger as long as she isn't

moving... she is such a big girl that we do

supervise her in her play .... she is just that big.

So until my scatter brain of ideas and things to

get done quiets down I will be enjoying your

updates and getting my thoughts gathered

for my blog...

Hopefully when I am back you will notice some

blogging changes - I finally switched over

to the new blogging editor and yes it is

much easier!

The peonies are coming up... the grass is getting

long... the horses are still full of winter hair...

the clothes need to be folded... still have some

pictures to go through... the furnace is still

running at times... need to order graduation

cake... go grocery shopping and

on and on.... plus we are busy planning

and filling in our summer schedule....

Yeehaw.... bring it on - Summer That Is!

Still Snow in Minnesota

May 1, 2011