Inside and Out

 We have been busy. The weather determines whether we are busy inside or outside. 

With a week now to go before we have new carpeting installed in all of our upstairs -  three bedrooms and the office -  I have done lots of sorting and culling and the upstairs bathtub is now stacked high with books and bedding and clothing.

On Monday, our usual housecleaning day, while it rained outside, we pulled all of the remaining furniture away from the walls and cleaned and dusted years with of accumulations on furniture backs and walls and baseboards and carpeting. What's left still functioning is our bed and nightstands, which we'll have to do the morning of, and our office, which we will take down the day before since it has our desktop computer and modem and wi-fi. Jill and the kids will come on Sunday to help carry boxed up and smaller stuff downstairs to the dining room and I'll feed them. It is Mother's Day and that's what mothers do, right?

Once the installers arrive they are being paid to move the furniture from one room to another as they install.

On Sunday and Tuesday we worked outside. We moved pots out of the greenhouse and we planted plants and prepared plants to give away. We cleaned pots and refreshed their contents.

Now the patio display of weird and spiney plants and tender plants are on display on the patio. The large pots that stay out year round have been emptied and reworked.

Alongside the patio the impatiens and plectranthus have been planted after cleaning up this bed and freeing it of cedar tree surface roots. 

Working outside is a joy now, with so much blooming, and of course the tulips!

Down in the lower yard, this lovely bleeding heart is blooming. 

And right now Loderi King George Rhododendron is the star with it's apple blossom pink buds fading to huge white flowers. 

And it's fragrant!

When the news bites, it's good to have flowers and plants and even cleaning jobs to occupy one's attention. 

May the Fourth be with you!