Oh my!! I was out all day yesterday and when I got home I was busy unpacking three big boxes which just happened to arrive on my porch full of bird houses and feeders that I had ordered. So I did not check this forum yesterday. I am looking at this forum this morning and surprised and very happy to see this birthday message :-)) I am so itching to start working in my garden this spring. I want to see the fruits of my labor so to speak, although its not actually fruit, ha-ha. I finished up my side yard rose garden last year and the new section (mostly HTs) was not much to look at really because the roses were so small. The older section looked fabulous but of course it had time to grow in as those roses were older. But my the end of fall, those new roses in the new section have really grown and settled in nicely so I am expecting the new section to look real good for the spring flush. Then I did an aweful lot on my front yard rose garden last year too and it has turned out better than I even expected. I had started it two years ago but it was on a slope and the mulch all ran off in the winter. So I put a short stacked rock wall at the very front, moved the Sunsprites in, had another small step up directly in back of them and just planted willy nilly. Its mostly floribundas. It turned out so well passersby stop and stare. Should be even better this year!!! My plan is to continue that short stacked stone wall all the way over accross that half of the front to end at the walkway going up to the porch. Then I want to put a terrace in back of the stacked wall in the shape of a half oval. That would go in front of the curving terrace wall I had put in last year. This would tie in the front yard floribunda rose garden with the shrub rose section planted at the top of the curved terrace. I don't know if I will be able to get to it this year but we will see. Already have roses on order from Heirloom for this spring!!!

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THANKS to all of you! I loved the link to the song!! Oh, and you're all invited over for steaks! After 60+ hours of temps below freezing, it's finally supposed to warm up today! :-) Here is a link that might be useful: Blogging about my birthday yesterday

Awwww, you all are so sweet! *blush*blush* I've had a great day! After DH fixed our usual weekend waffles for breakfast, he gave me his gifts - a VHS/DVD recorder thingy to get our tapes onto DVDs and a Staples gift card. YAY! I love Staples!! I've been wanting an external backup, and I've been wanting a new LCD monitor because I'm about to give mine to my mom. He also gave me the chair massager thingy that I ordered for myself a few weeks ago. :-) *Ahhhhh...* Little sis and I went shopping. It's fun to go when you don't really HAVE to. I bought myself some Lee Rider jeans at Walmart (my first try at those, but sis swears by them) and a new black turtleneck. OH!! And I bought the CUTEST stocking hangers at Walmart - they look like deer antlers! Perfect for our house! Then we ate a quick lunch at Arbys and went to Dillards so I could buy myself a new gown as a gift from my mom. She knew I wanted one, but she wanted me to pick it out. Sis took me by my folks' to show them the new gown, and they had birthday cards for me. My older sis sent me a $25 eBay gift card. Cool! I'm home now and will wrap a few of the last minute things "Santa" is bringing for DH...LOL! That is, I'll wrap them if he ever finishes whatever he is wrapping in the spare bedroom. We usually go out to eat on my birthday, but that late lunch did me in. I think I'll ask him to brown some hamburger meat and make sloppy joes or something. :-) Thanks again for all of the sweet wishes. You really did make my day special. *wink*