More of the same.

 Same, meaning outside for the morning.  I finished up edging.  Yahoo!!   Such a big job and finished for a couple of months.   Last evening Kathy, our neighbor came over with two huge tomato plants that are ours to take care of while they travel to Texas to watch their son run the Iron Man.  They are going on to Big Ben for a week.  What a responsibility to keep these huge honker tomato plants going.  

Doug had ask if he could to a spring clean-up job on their blackberry bush and he got a go-ahead as he usually does each spring. Some years there are blackberries, some years the deer make that impossible.  So we'll see what happens in 2022.  

The bush is ready for whatever it will be able to do with all the dead branches gone.  Doug discovered a red tulip growing in the flowerbed by our patio.  Humm...the deer missed that one which I have not seen bloom since I planted it more than 30 years ago.  It reminded me of that song...I'm the only little petunia in an onion patch.  This time it's I'm the only little tulip in the garden patch.  

The last picture is vacation-related.  This is a wonderful piece of driftwood found along the shore of Lake Superior by the Jared R. family.  It was at church in a display for a while when we first brought it home.  It moved to the garden and now supports a perennial sweet pea plant of which there are many in the UP of Michigan planted by the wives of miners who worked the Copper Mines spuing out copper more than  100 years ago.   The houses are gone, the mines are no more but the apple trees and sweetpeas still remain the evidence of large communities no longer in existence.  

So for many, the workweek is over.  For many it's family time.  Whatever time it is for you, think on these things...

Family, Health, Housing Security, Friends, and our God who walks alongside.  

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