It has been a hectic summer, what with our moms' health, family coming in, etc. Things around here have been woefully neglected as a result.
Yesterday I decided to chip away at some of the things on my to-do list.
I began by sorting and rearranging the food storage shelves in the laundry room. That only took a half an hour, so I turned my attention to another storage area.
The cleaning closet! It was topsy turvy, and took about an hour to organize. I went to bed that evening feeling satisfied at what I had accomplished.
Today I tackled the gardening.
The stepping stone garden was an absolute mess!
But slowly my stepping stones and statues began to emerge.
My old fashioned outhouse lilies need no care - they come up on their own and are beautiful.
Craig helped weed the front bushes. As he worked, a robin kept scolding him and trying to draw him away.
No wonder! There is a nest with four eggs in the corner bush! (I love how Craig spoke to the bird in soothing tones, telling her not to worry, that he was just weeding and wouldn't harm her nest, etc. It was so sweet!)
Speaking of nests, we also have barn swallows brooding in the nest on our porch arch.
Like I said, the stepping stone garden was a big mess. Ugh!
But it cleaned up well, and I am excited to see that my volunteer snapdragons are back in full force, spreading throughout the stones!
I look forward to finding out what this perennial turns out to be.
I also went to Menards and got some coleus and begonias for my two big planters on the patio.
My two tomato plants from Tim Schnepp are there, too, and doing well.
Usually I get some hanging baskets and do several pots of flowers, but since it is so late this year, I am sticking to the two pots. (The coleus are in honor of my grandfather who bred coleus at Purdue.)
At the end of the day there was quite a pile of garden trash. It felt so good to get the outside gardens planted and under control! I think this is the latest I have ever been on my summer planting.
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