So it proved to be a good time to get some work done outside. Mowed the lawn, picked up all the branches that have dropped out of my maple over the winter and bundled them up for the city waste pickup. Now I had a head of steam up. I garden in 5 large containers as along my driveway is the only place sunny enough for tomatores. Each spring I dump these out one at a time on a tarp in the driveway, break up the soil, add some compost and time released fertalizer and refill them. So I decided the time was right. My compost stash (a 30 gallon trash container) was empty so I screened enough compost to fill it up. Then started to work on the containers. When I dumped out my oldest container I found it was split from top to bottom. So I quickly ran to the store to get a new container. Came home, took care of all the containers, planted 4 big boy tomatoe plants and 4 sweet 100 plants and put my wall-0-water green houses on them.
That was a pretty good days work.
Sometime around the end of April I made the decision that it was time to paint my living room. Afterall that paint and border had been up 20 years. Now was the time to do something different. In Country Living magazine I had noticed lately when they give paint suggestions, they show several possibilities for paint colors. I decided it was time to expand so I picked bamboo mat to try. Friday I picked up the paint and then on Sunday my mother and I steamed off the old wallpaper border and washed the walls and baseboards. Work on the living room is going well.
This weekend the extra warm weather brought out some color in my tree peony. I added this plant to my landscape about 5 years ago as a little 4 inch plant. Look at it now.
