Posted 5/1/2018 2:58 PM (GMT 0)
Hello all. Seems as though the weather might actually start matching the calendar!
The really tall amaryllis has bloomed! Sitting on the counter, it reaches the second cabinet shelf! Ruby red trumpets with an even darker shade in the center of each petal! Only 2 trumpets but absolutely stunning!!!!
The broken one that I put in a vase is starting to bloom, too! The third has not started to open yet.
So much still to do outside! Today, more work on the 'bones' of the landscape. I took down the old strings of lights that encircle the patio and started putting up the new ones. These look like flowers and give a nice warm glow. I have to buy one more string, as they are not quite as long as the old sets!
I was amending and adding to the soil in the largest pots and put a hole in one of them with the shovel! So, instead of aqua, yellow, blue, yellow I will have yellow, aqua, yellow. Sigh. Perhaps it's for the best.
My 'houseguest' has found other accommodations. She has to come back to get some of the things she hasn't taken yet. I hope she does it soon! Some of it is still in the back of my pickup truck and I need to pick up some bulky things from the garden center. I'm a bit mystified by the fact that she left her late husband's cremains! She posts on facebook all the time about how much she still loves him and how much she misses him...it's hard not to make a snarky comment that she might miss him a little less if she would come and get him! Her leaving did not go on the smoothest of terms as I had hoped it would. She was supposed to have emptied my truck last Thursday but did not come when she said she would, which left me a 'prisoner' of her schedule, and it's STILL not done!
I'm struggling a bit today...it's sunny and warm but, I find myself unmotivated. Probably just tired.
Hope everyone is having a peaceful day.