There are some days when it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. Yesterday was one of those for me! I had a double senior moment! I managed to both flood the new bath and smoke up the kitchen! David and James had gotten the kitchen exhaust hooked up just a couple weeks ago. It works great! While I do enjoy doing the laundry (There is something very satisfying about putting away clean clothing), doing an extra load of wet towels and throw rugs from mopping up the bathroom and kitchen just doesn't seem as enjoyable. In my defense moments like these mostly happen when I have been under the weather battling some infections or allergies which was the case yesterday.
The mums are beautiful this fall, big and just loaded with bright blossoms. We had two that didn't come up this spring and we replaced them, and those look so small compared to the ones we set out two years ago. I do hope that these make it through the winter OK. Our yard is looking pretty good right now since David did a lot of trim work that he hadn't had the time or energy for while working at the school. We bought some more spring bulbs - tulips, daffy-down-dillies, and crocus - to put between the peonies and mums and need to get them in the ground soon. I also want to move the lilly of the valley out of the dog pen to the north side of the house in front of the porch between the bushes. A friend has told us she has a red peony we can get two starts from to put at either end of our peony row. The ones we have that we transplanted from the shady back yard to a row along the east edge of our yard where they get the morning sun are pink and white and have really gotten big in the last two years and were just loaded with blossoms this last spring. There is still a lot of trim work to do before winter sets in. Oh, and one of my big flower pots of geraniums that we had sitting on the front steps sprouted legs and walked off. Couldn't have been very small legs either as it was all I could do to wrestle them into the basement last fall where I kept them alive all winter under a grow light. I guess someone needed some cheering up by their bright blossoms.
God is so good to us and surrounds us with his love if we only look for it.
(PS - This time I got into my blog all by my self! Hurray! I guess you can teach an old gal new tricks. Now if I could just stop this klutz thing! Oh, well, it keeps life interesting.)
