Thursday May 9, 2013
Milked.
Shower began so nothing outside until
late afternoon. 1/8 inch or so.
Trimmed garden fence border, inside and
out and east end of garden.
Cleaned out iris and daylily row in
garden.
Max is mowing the yard.
Tomorrow:
Plant coleus and spearmint (in clay pot
in herb bed.
Plant 4 tomatoes as a trial.
Friday, May 10, 2013
It was cooler this morning, 58° and
more shower during the night....up to ¼ inch now. Right now the sun
is shining but 70% chance of more rain with a high of 70°. They are
tossing around a possible low in 30's and 40's so I won't risk my
tomatoes just yet.
We don't think the tree trimmer will be
back until Monday so we will make a Mother's Day flower run and pick
up a couple of grocery items.
We are coffee people and have been
disappointed in out coffee recently. Our favored Yuban isn't what it
once was! It also used to be the highest price and is now the
lowest....I also see it doesn't say Colombian on the label. I makes
me so mad when they change a product. We have tested 8 o'clock,
Maxwell house and Dunkin Donuts....not very impressed yet. I think
we may buy several smaller cans and do test runs.....silly I know
but we do enjoy coffee.
Saturday May ll, 2013
We are having Max's mother for dinner
tomorrow so this day was spent baking and cleaning.
I made an angel food cake and then used
the yolks for a very yellow lemon flavored sponge cake.
We have samples the lemon one already
and it turned out well.
I am making a very tradition southern
fried chicken dinner: fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy,
green beans dressed with toasted almonds, salad. And hot biscuits.
I will make a boiled frosting for the
angel food cake.
We bought a flat of fibrous begonias
for her gift and I planted her whiskey barrel with them and had
enough left to plant the south edge of her patio.
We are in our second day of another and
I hope last, cool spell. It is 37° here this morning. They promise
all next week will be very warm.
I had a wonderful surprise on Mother's
Day. Our KC daughter and her family drove down and had dinner with
us.
The orioles have already left us to fly
north. I think they didn't stay as long this year. We still just
have 2 or 3 hummers.
Pictures
The early clematis are blooming:
This one is Niobe almost buried amidst the Clematis Paniculata and weeds in the Ramp Bed by the milk parlor.....all in good time....
and Henryi in the back of the cellar bed. I still haven't installed a trellis so it will just trail this year.
It has lots of honeybees hovering.
I think I should move some of Barb's iris here.
Barb's iris (she was a neighbor who gave them to me)is blooming in the Grass Bed by the cellar.
This is the one growing on the Endless Summer Hydrangea in the Kitchen Window Bed. I let it get ahead of my trellis just like the Henryi.
