Thursday.

 Well, wouldn't you know.  The neighbors had another garage sale.  I looked around again and thought I'd go back later.  I was too late.  The garage door was down.  I shared a picture of grandson Eli in his vintage leather jacket in the morning visit..  I did bring home a free watering can.  Then it was back home to the work with the slave driving Mrs. R.

Today I tackled the front of the house on the north east corner.  It's the Lilly of the Valley place that has absolutely taken over some pretty nice ground cover.  The roots of the L of the V are massive. I wanted to enlarge the bare areas around my Sum and Substance Hosta.  It's a beauty and one I told Doug it would be his responsibility to hold an umbrella over it if hail came. The leaves are huge.  I guess I wasn't thinking of the umbrella holder. I've divided the original one into three plants. The deer did a big munch earlier in the year on one but the plant is beginning to look like it should. Well, not quite but it's beginning. Deer do not like order.  I have a hunch the Lily of the Valley might have deterred. L of the V. are poisonous to animals.  They also kill plants.

                                  This is a morning picture.  Tonight Solomon Seal has been added..                                                                     Next...different ferns. This is a north side picture.  

The north side of the house has had a good raking but today what needed to be dug out happened.  The garden cart was full and now there is room for keep plants to breath.  I realized that all the Solomon Seal plants were gone.  I wonder if the rabbits got them.  They are such tough little plants but gone is the word.  It could be deer come to think of it.  So tonight it's moving evening.  Solomon Seal bring such a new interesting detail to a plant bed.  

                 Ready and willing but I guess I am the able one. An evening moving job was possible.

I took a two and a half hour lunch break from gardening. Good for me.  Enough done for sure.  It was TV time, lunch time, medicine filling containers time and just time.  I did a bed sheet wash and changed everything to a summer do.  The wool blankets and heavy quilt are stored for another winter.  Two winter sweaters are drying on the patio. 

The afternoon was all about cutting back ivy and cleaning up some paths.  Not hard but hard enough.

        Two roads diverged in my back yard and I took the one that looked the neatest to the right.                                                                 Another day for the one on the left!

  By then the cart was almost over flowing with stuff for the B. Blue.  Doug worked on filling the second B Blue with clippings from another great bush.  He's a master at that kind of stuff. 

 

        I started work when it was cool.  Then it got warm and I tied the sweatshirt on to the cart.                               The second cart will be filled first thing in the morning.  My Lord...what a day!

I did some watering and prepared S S for the transplant after supper.  There will be a few other things moved to that area but not tonight.  I'm saving evening time for basketball.  We'll see what the Knicks dol  I bet they will be on their toes tonight.

We dined on the patio again, watching the birds and just having a good quiet time.  The day was full of many things and once again gratitude is my theme for many reasons. 

Another big pile of throw away will move tomorrow.  The body's engine said enough for today. I agree.         I sure cleared out a big pile of spring stuff that is over and done.  On to other things tomorrow.