Well, I guess I have fallen back into my bad habit of never completing what I have started. I really thought this would be a cinch for me but it has turned out to be a chore. I guess it must be spring fever even though our weather is more like winter.
Allergies have taken up most of my time and energies. All the beautiful trees now have leaves of varying shades of green, but the pollen is still bad and I find I must stay inside most of the time. Even with allergy medication, I had to go to the eye doctor who put me on eye drops because the allergy med doesn't have enough antihistamine in it. This is a new thing for me! What is happening to our world?
I have noticed the birds have stopped coming to visit and wondered what the problem was. The problem was and is, my hubby hasn't filled the feeders in two weeks. His morning ritual has fallen by the wayside as the feeders are hard to get to with all the walled levels and the ground is full of holes where the moles, voles or whatever have set up house keeping. One fall and it could mean a hip or worse. Time to move the feeders in closer to the house.
Since I've been cooped in the house I have decided to go through all the boxes of pictures we have stuffed away all these years. Some of the babies defeat my memory. Why or why didn't I put names and dates on the back of the pictures?! Of course I never meant to get older and now notice my memory is slipping away little by little. With so very many pictures, whichever I have forgotten I have others that replace them and are much easier to recognize. Of course the old cameras didn't help any with the black and white film and the fading. Many I just need to toss because my children and grand children won't have any idea who they are or even care long after I'm gone. I just wish I had asked more questions of my parents so I could pass on information that the children might need or want to know someday.
I think I need a flower boost. That's what's ailing me. Cold nights and cool days and not a flower planted yet. I did soak my Morning Glory seeds last night so as soon as it warms up some I will get out and plant those. I will enjoy checking on them each day to watch their progress. I think I will do up long planters with cascading petunias in fuchsia, deep purple, white and pink to brighten up the walls and my spirit. I am always happy around flowers and petunias are safe because I am not allergic to them. I will also plant some Heliotrope for their light and lovely scent of baby powder, and its changing shades of pale hyacinth blue to the deeper variations of purple.
At present my Clematis is in full bloom and had so many buds I was anxious to see them open. So much so that I asked my hubby to cut a little 8 inch sprig of leaves from the tree brushing against it in order to save the buds from being knocked off. Hubby did better than that, he cut off a large branch of tree and needless to say, it came down with a crash and landed on my beautiful vine full of buds and knocked some completely off. I can't believe how upset it made me. I could have done it myself and should have but couldn't handle the lopping shears. Oh well, I'm learning.
He is the same beau who continually mowed down my mom's lilacs every year while trying to be helpful. She warned me about his not knowing a weed from a flower. Now we have all kinds of little oaks sprouting up which have ROOTS that go on forever. I have and will continue to have a tug of war with them for some time to come. The plants were pulled out since he didn't realize they would eventually flower. The tiny tree starts looked important to him. At least we got rid of all the spearmint that was overtaking our yard. Now I know you plant the mint family in pots.
I think I will buy some nice silk flowers and spray them with a preservative to hold their color and sneak them in any empty looking spots. As soon as I plant a beautiful fully blooming addition, I step back and admire it for the day. The next morning the plant is gone, pulled down through a hole in the ground. Others get chewed off at the very bottom of the stem. The only thing that has lasted through the winter and is now filling out is my Mother's Day Butterfly Bush which for some reason, nothing out there seems to find it tasty.
Sssh, the sun is now out and it is supposed to be cool, a nice day for planting. Now I have to get my butt in gear and go to the nursery to buy my flowers. I'm excited and leery about that part. I always tend to over buy and my back suffers for days as I try to get everything planted before they die. I will reign myself in though, I promise. Like I did last year and all the years before them. The only thing I really have going for me now is I have learned to plant flowers in pots and decorated planters. My stone walls will look beautiful but the rest of the yard I can no longer get to. Oh well, it really doesn't matter in the overall scheme of things.
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