digging and planting and weeding and being outside during this glorious week

The weather this last week has been glorious including today...in the 50s in the morning warming to the 70s, low humidity so of course I've spent as much of it as I could outside. In no particular order I got my green beans in the ground, moved the five plumerias to their summer spots sinking two pots in the ground and planting another straight into the ground after I broke its pot last fall moving it into the garage, sprouted heavenly blue morning glory seeds to plant over at the shop, did a lot of weeding in the flower beds, added dirt to my potato plants (I'll eventually fill the big pot all the way to the top as they grow), sowed marigold and nasturtium seeds, planted moss rose, a trailing petunia, and two pentas either in pots or the ground, spread fertilizer in pots and the ground, used the trimmer to tidy up around all the flower beds and around the bluebonnets in front that are going to seed, moved the small clump of elephant garlic allium, moved some of the yellow and white butterfly ginger to the front along side of the deck, planted the firespike I rooted over the winter in the front, moved a small volunteer beautyberry, dug up the dewberry vines that had invaded the west flower bed, tossed out more zinnia seeds, planted the morning glory bush cuttings I rooted, used the chainsaw to cut out and cut up some dead branches in the photinia in the little backyard. And that's probably not even everything.

Some pics of what's blooming...

rain lilies

third round of blooms on the walking iris

clasping leaved coneflowers

queen anne's lace

byzantium gladiolas

I have a new plan for the old turtle pond. I have two smaller ponds that I grow water plants in, some of which I grew to feed Big Mama, and they are all going in the big pond now and I'll get rid of the two small ones; one round and one kidney shaped. I already had lizard tail in there because she wouldn't eat that and the other two are parrot feather and sword leaf which she did eat. The small round tub with the miniature water lily I'll keep.

Last Tuesday was the last cardio drumming class and I'm going to miss it but at least it will make it easier to get dinner done and I won't have to get all my prep done before I go to class.

The T-rex that guards the entrance to our neighborhood has acquired some new companions, a pair of velociraptors.

I went to the annual training meeting at SHARE this morning which basically consists of treating the people who come for help with dignity (for the interviewers) and not giving them out of date food or any package that has been damaged (for those of us who fill the food requests) which means checking the sell by date on everything that is donated. Sometimes people just clean out their pantries. We've gotten stuff that is years out of date, not often but it does happen. After the meeting there was a potluck lunch that I did not stay for...you're not staying? No not this time, I have things I need to do today. What I didn't tell them was that the 'things' were outside on this glorious day, way too nice to be spending it indoors and I got the last major weeding done in a flower bed by the fence that was neglected last year. I still have a couple of small areas but I need to use the trowel to get around the things I don't want to dig up.

this area was filled with weeds and stuff I did not want