HAPPY NEW WEEK!
I hope everyone has a wonderful week!
Lindybird: We have some solar string lights that take a special AAA battery for landscaping. We have a couple of stick-in-the-ground ones too, but haven't used them much. I did a bunch of work in the garden too; found out I'd been pruning the protea and the euphorbia all wrong, so did the best I could given that it was two years late! Hope your OH is done with helping out with the kitchen.
The ISS is making the brightest pass tonight so will go out and wave to the folks on board if the sky stays clear. :-)
Have a good Monday all.
Hello - and thank you, DIANE. Sorry no helicopter ! LINDY - you are very clever fixing a pressure washer together - I can hardly work mine, never mind make it! Callum used it yesterday to wash his car and I had to ask him to change the wand to the one I need - I can't even do that... I'll blame my stupid hands. OG - I don't watch the Eurovision Song contest either - can't stand the noise. Sometimes I watch TV using the subtitles - the combination of sound and vision together annoys me. I'm pleased that J is finally going to see about his knees. My son eventually consulted the GP about his knees a couple of years ago. He had put it off because I rather tactlessly told him that his knees were carrying too much weight. Well, if your mother can't say these things - who can?!! ANNETTE - I seem to remember that protea is a rather large tropical flower? Sorry about the whale (not) count. We've had a couple of rain showers here this morning but I am quite determined to do some weeding and mulching of the one border that is left in the front garden. I have to buy shrubs to put there - can't decide on what to get. Not too tall, not too wide, you get the picture. I will get at least one mop head hydrangea, have already got a camellia and a lace cap hydrangea there plus a hosta that survived the onslaught. Regards to ALL
Love those lace cap hydrangeas, Heather. So pretty. Why not have an azalea? Nice for spring colour, and you could prune it a little if it grew too large. My sis in law has just bought two rhodedendrons for her tiny garden -- I thought Oh, heck, I hope they're the miniature versions as some can grow to ginormous proportions. I daren't ask her..... Sunny here in between some of the cloudy spells. We put out the garden chairs but it's too cold to sit in them for more than five minutes. Must go and attend to my emails
Gardening in The Rain
"I'm going to get this gardening done,"
Even though, in the rain, it's not much fun.
I bought some tough new gardening gloves,
And watched by the local collared doves
I started on the muddy borders,
Struggling with the pots I'd ordered:
Camellias, hostas, hydrangeas, too -
When I'm finished, the colours will show right through.... But
My wellies got stuck before too long
My feet were aching, the rain was too strong
I came out with some swearywords, and
"This gardening lark is for the birds!"
I made a dash for the house and home,
Tripping over a muddied gnome.
Looking from the window, I'm dry at last
I'll wait warm with a coffee until the clouds pass.