spent some time in the hot tub tonight thinking about the garden… realized that I didn’t move the planter boxes under the deck, and empty out the pots around the yard like George would have… I hope that none of them will be cracked when the snow finally leaves… there is definitely less every time I come home from work these days, but there is still a lot to go…

still see a hole in the sky where this elm tree used to be…

considering changing the side garden… still getting used to the fact that it isn’t a shade garden anymore, now that the elm tree is gone… the barrel running into the kidney shaped pool just isn’t working and I am thinking about possible alternatives… hoping that the big pond will really get redone…  this might happen in June if all goes well…  I don’t want to get too excited about it after last year’s fiasco… but I do have a good feeling…

barrel and pond…

will need to find a gardener who can help me get everything in shape, and then I should be able to manage it for the remainder of the summer… last year I had a wonderful woman named Lynn, but I think it was too much for her… she did a great job of weeding and cleaning up the side garden particularly, as well as trimming the virginia creeper so that it didn’t get right out of hand…

must be spring, lol…