ivy still here

 

I spent the morning weeding

 

and inspecting the garden for you know

 

damage and bugs and poison ivy

 

found all three

 

 

bugs I can live with

 

but poison ivy...two little stalks found hiding under the dogwoods

 

 

but worse, I found a break in the drainage from the sump pump

 

oh dear, will it never end.....this is not sexy stuff

 

but the lilies are all in bloom....sigh I love lilies

so beautiful at dusk with that slant of light piercing their beautiful petals

 

Pablo was supposed to come tonight to look at the drainage pipe

of course ...he didn't come

he'll be here in the morning, but how does he know that I will be here?

I was out and about...near plants...I want to take them all home...it's a sickness

this love of flowers....

 

 



sort of back into the garden

Oh dear

 

I thought I'd write a bit

 

but everything didn't cooperate

 

this happens a lot lately since passing the unholy age of 65

But I miss my blogger friends

especially the garden and animal loving ones

 

so here goes....a few lines about my garden

 

It was a mess

really and truly a mess

 

I called in Pablo for help

 

he tore the hell out of it and got it straight

 

I'm too old for the hard work

 

But now that it is whipped into shape

I started

 

and wouldn't you know that nasty poison ivy from last year reared its ugly horrid head

 

but this year I knew what I was looking for

 

and despite making a pledge years ago about using chemicals

 

I sinned

 

Roundup

 

had to.....

 

It's 90 outside

so I did a bit of watering and weeding

and then  almost fainted from all that hot sunshine

 

getting old is a bitch

 

I used to move furniture around the house like it was nothing

 

now, moving a hosta plant all about does me in

 

more tomorrow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

Held by snow

 

a dried up curled up leaf

 

That about describes me right now

 

I promise to get back to gardening this year

 

and sharing my thoughts with you

 

I know there are a few followers left

 

who will love seeing transformations

 

and isn't the garden just that

 

transformations?

 

I try to be whimsical about my posting

 

letting you in on my feelings about the garden

 

last year I just couldn't conjure them up

 

If you don't go in to the garden....no salve for the weary

 

but that's okay.....I was busy being the salve somewhere else

 

But I ache for the flower petals, the dragonflies

 

toads....bunnies....bats

 

and the occasional stray oddity that has been known to grace my garden

 

just look back in my blog

 

I do have two resident feral cats now that have taken up on my deck

 

I have their 3 kittens inside...almost 15 months old now

 

My husband is well and the grandkids are doing fine

 

Little Tuula is doing the best she ever has

 

fingers crossed

 

I am going to keep it simple this year

 

no going crazy on planters

 

Iwill feel like a success if I can keep up with weeding and pruning

 

oh I am dreaming of a warm summer day...being in the shade of the pines

 

listening and feeling the breeze against my face

 

oh to feel alive like that again

 

so simple