sunny skies

Nice day and a lovely vase of blooms!

CBS Sunday Morning with coffee and the papers. Bacon & eggs for breakfast.

Put in a load of laundry and ran a load of dishes.

Sunny and not too windy, if a little chilly out, so I checked my rose seeds out on the patio. Two germinations made me happy, one from Midas Touch and one from Julia Child. Hope they grow!

Grocery shopping with a little added bonus. When we pulled into the little local shopping center Al spotted the ice cream shop and said we should have ice cream for dinner. I said OK and we laughed. Coming out of the grocery he put the bags in the trunk and then started walking away. He went to the ice cream shop and bought us cones! I had something called Cow Tipping? Chocolate cows (they really were little chocolate cows, lol) in vanilla ice cream with caramel swirls. It was good!

Went out and took some pictures of the things that are blooming, hiacynth, daffodil, tulips and finally my forsythia popped! I guess I can prune now!

Pork chops w/onions, mashed potatoes & gravy and home made applesauce for dinner.

Probably some couch potato TV tonite.

Pretty pictures!

1. Coffee and eggs for breakfast. Lots of coffee...
2. Cleaned up kitchen; put a pork loin roast into the crockpot and threw a can of cherry pie filling on top.
3. Nascar.
4. Glass of wine.
5. Another glass, yes!
Dinner will be pork roast, baked potato w/sour cream, green beans.
Just another productive day in the life of a retiree. I'm a mess - and love it!
Hope everyone had a lovely Sunday...

Seil, I love your Sunday.

Ice cream is my guilty pleasure :)

Pork chop & mashed potatoes - craving!

I love the sweet scent of Hyacinths.

My Calla Lilly bulbs have surfaced too
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The Crepe Myrtles have leaves.
I can't wait to see that first hint of color.
I will post pictures when they do.

ogrose, what wine do you recommend?
Lately, I've been offered samples of Moscato.

Luscious and unusually lazy Sunday for me today. Normally it's all day in the barn, and some time in the garden.

But, I gave the 14 horses their annual vaccines today, so they got to sit around doing nothing - like me afterwards!

I took a few more pics in the garden, and tried to amply water everything so I don't get behind for the week. Then we spent an unusual day in bed in front of the TV - with Haagen Dazs Vanilla Milk Chocolate Almond bars, and left over steak from last night.

I think I'll actually feel energized instead of exhausted when I go back to work tomorrow!

Next weekend I'll catch up with the manure I didn't move this weekend! And I really will complete mulching at some point. About 50% done. Too lazy today.

Brought the horses in from the pasture to eat and spend the day in their stalls.

Went out to breakfast with friends a half hour out in the country (and we live in the "country" so even more country than me!) to a tiny little & motel (6 rooms) and had a fine southern breakfast. ("Fine southern breakfast" would include grits, biscuits, country ham and ice tea!)

Dug around, weeded and rearranged the kitchen herb garden.

Sat on the porch in rocking chairs and chatted with a neighbor.

Went to the garden center with my hubby and he bought some plants for his vegetable garden.

Weeded the daffodil/day lily bed.

The DH cooked dinner while I went to the barn to feed, clean stalls and turn out the horses.

I am envious! spent the weekend like the three weekends prior working as the client wants the docs in line so it is typing away two days straight and hours long calls. but at least i got to surf this forum to unwind and get some sleep.....

saw my abe darby having two buds today.... yeah!!!

Made a lovely omelet with mushrooms and avocado and some ham and then didn't eat for hours and hours! Spent several hours rotating the sprinkler and soakers, getting things good and wet. It got up to 86 today, and things were wilting. Weeded some more. Admired my single purple asparagus stalk (6" by 1/8"!) There OUGHT to be 16 of those little suckers, I hope like anything the other 15 come up soon! Drilled and mounted the new house numbers out on the fence (the numbers that came 'with' are all jumbled together, vertical, and NOT in a single line, so are very hard to read, and ugly). I bought 6" numbers and painted them blue... Picked a small bouquet of what's blooming now - Monsieur Tillier, Cl. Cecille Brunner, some deep garnet red dianthus and some shocking pink dianthus, and some purple violas. Dinky but beautiful bouquet. Picked about a pound of lettuce from the lettuce bed, too much for tonights salad, so will finish that up tomorrow.

Going to mount my new mailbox tomorrow, and cut a hole in the fence for it, since we don't want much of it outside the fence line.

Coffee in the morning while searching a different baked bean recipe for the crockpot while waiting on Costco to open.

Decided to boil the beans just in case while waiting on Costco.

Picked up supplies for a veggie garden drip system and bought a cover for my new bbq at HD.

Picked up the buns and a couple of extra chairs at Costco

Mixed what I decided would be good for the beans in the crockpot and headed to mom's to wrestle my deal roll of fencing (found a discounted roll of 330' of 48" field fencing for $10-steal of a deal and have been replaced the salvage fencing we were using around the veggie garden)

Cut the wire down to run 2 rows of boysenberries and two of raspberries (extra will be for around trees) and made tomato cages and veggie fencing out of the rest.

Then-tested the new bbq and had a hot dog/beans/tater salad cook out with the boys and mom.

And am now tired.

I did cut a jar full of deep purple sweet peas to take home and enjoy. Where is that glass of wine!

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I planted bands from last summer and some of my 2G roses. Also companions. I worked from 10 am to 6 pm. Then I ate dinner, showered and went to bed.
I am busting my fanny early this year in the hopes that I can have some relaxing Sundays soon. Usually I am planting in the heat and humidity of June...
This June I'm hoping for omelettes, coffee, newspapers and naps on the weekend. (In the garden).
Susan