We were able to trim some bushes in the afternoon when the sun was high and warm.
The Rhododendron has popped. You can't really tell by the picture, but some of the buds at the top have some pink peeking through. I am going to try to post a picture everyday until it is in full bloom. It usually pops on Memorial Day weekend so you can tell by that how early everything is this year. My husband mowed lawn on Thursday. He like to do it on Thursdays because then it will look nice on the weekend. there is sort of a unwritten law in our neighborhood that no one mow lawn on Sunday.
I forgot to mention or maybe I did that my husband bought me a beautiful wicker basket made out of concrete. It is so heavy we could barely get it into position in the flower garden where we wanted it to go. This is a picture.
We have screened in porch on he front of the house and we have had wicker furniture for the porch for about 15 years now. We invested in good pieces, Lloyd Flanders. It's not really even wicker but a resin. The couch for the set cost more than my living room couch. But all in all it was well worth it because it lasted this long. The first set of cushions and covers came with the set and we kept them for maybe 10 years. Every year I would take the covers off and wash them and put them back on in the Spring. The second set of covers I mad myself by taking apart the old cushions covers and using them as a pattern to make new ones. They came out fairly well and served the purpose for about 3 years, but now it was time for all new cushions and covers because the bating inside had started to wear down and flatten. So two summers ago we bought new cushions in a new pattern. This is our third summer with them. Last year before we put the furniture away I took the coveres off and washed them. So today we got the furniture all washed down and the cushions put back together so now the porch is officially opened and ready for visitors. My friends and relatives all keep asking if the porch is open yet because they know that it is the official start of summer.
There is a big old Victorian style home across the street from us. When we moved here almost 25 years ago there was an elderly couple living there. He was a retired OB/GYN, as a matter of fact he delivered me when my mother was pregnant. He was alive for almost 10 years after we moved here. My daughter would love to go running across the street if she fell and got a "boo boo". He would bring out his old black bag and fix her up. The wife lived there for another 10 years before she moved to a retirement community. She sold it to a young couple, who believe it or not, I had gone to school with the husbands mother. Another young couple displaced from my old neighborhood. The older couple too was from my old neighborhood. They bought this house and practically gutted the whole thing. They pulled up all the carpeting and discovered hardwood in layed floors. took down the old wrought iron railing going up the stairs to the second floor and put in new wood railing. Pulled the csrpeting off the stairs and refinished the steps. The did a really nice job. The house sits on a piece of property that would normally hold three houses. Sadly they have decided to sell. They don't feel it is a sufficient style of house to raise a family in. The doctor and his wife raised two kids with no problem. When his lawn needs to be mowed he has to have lawn service and they seem to come on the weekend. It is very annoying if that lawn mowing day lands on a Sunday. Everyone else follows the unwritten no mowing on Sunday law, but I guess your at the mercy of the lawn service, they come when their schedule permits.
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