I finally decided to measure rain and use the sprinkler whenever I don't get one or two inches of rain in a week. I don't have something fancy, just a tupperware container that measures 3 inches deep. Some plants need more water then others too and I try to group them together. Hydrangeas and Astilbes come to mind. I try to make sure they get two inches of water a week at least. Our spring has been fine for me although colder then usual to begin with and now gray for just a bit too long and that's all. Good working weather for the most part. Lots of spring flowers have lasted a long time. It has been great for keeping the mosquitoes at bay, too. Last night was the first time I have been bit by one. I think that is pretty late. Everything started growing well with a couple of warm sunny days, but are in a holding pattern at the moment. My roses are actually looking great, to my delight. Clean foliage and budding up well. I have seen ladybugs on the leaves and I've added new fertilizers this year. We'll see how long that lasts. [g] Last year, they looked great until just after their first flush of blooms and went downhill from there. pm2

toooooo many sleeps before I can get out. LOL nice link, Wendy.

Cyn - I just remembered to come look for your photo - love the touch with Daffodils!! We still have a little snow, where the big banks were, but it is dirty and almost gone - now it is allergy season!! Yea. I have done a little bit of cleanup in our new yard. Dear god, how much crap the last people left under the snow!! Kids small toys everywhere and garbage and recyclables under the deck!! What a mess - also hundreds of cigarette butts!! We have a postage stamp-sized front yard, which I raked, as I wanted to get the crap out of the way of anything that might come up - tulips noses coming out through the ice!!! Yea. Hopefully they have enough oomph in them to bloom. Love this time of year, despite the allergies!! Nancy.

We too try to do a little bit each weekend and don't confine it to any one particular season, just try to chip away at it year round. I can't do too much all at once or else I put myself flat on my back for weeks, and for the most part DH has to be supervised (at his request, after he did something that was the polar opposite of how I had explained how to do it - in writing!). I actually vacuumed/dustmopped three rooms on Tuesday, which laid me out for the rest of the day but I got it done. I'm absolutely worthless today, a combination of a residual migraine left over from yesterday, working too hard at physio yesterday, and Major Tom's come to town. A couple of weeks ago DH finally put up a shelf and hanging rod in the guest-room closet so he could move his clothes out of the MBR closet - he gets up at oh-dark-thirty so he dresses in the guest room because I'm a very light sleeper. We have bouncy floors upstairs and just his walking across the MBR floor is enough to wake me up. We also sorted his clothes and a couple of bags went off to Goodwill, and a lot of the boxed-up stuff stored in the guest-room closet was moved to the back of the much larger but very daftly-designed MBR closet (it's under the eaves so you have to bend over double to get to 2/3 of it). Irritatingly, DH has a commitment for Sunday from 11 to 6 which means we'll get Sweet Fanny Adams done that day, and that's supposed to be the only decent day of the weekend weather-wise. I need to sort my clothes - 80% of which won't fit right now but the docs assure me they will again, but at least half of THAT is stuff that will never see the light of day (raspberry suede mid-calf skirt? black velvet blouse with burnout sleeves and deep keyhole neckline? nuh-uh) so I might as well be rid of it, and maybe I'll do that Sunday while he's gone. I did sort my shoes and threw out most of them - beyond worn out, I had had one pair for 23 years! - although a couple did make it to the Goodwill bag. I'm also hoping that we can get the guest room furniture rearranged (we've been here since Sept 2007 and the furniture in there is all still pretty much where the movers dropped it! LOL) on Saturday so I can get the bed made up... the bedding is very bulky and is making quite a big pile. DH won a set of really nice pots and pans in a contest at work so when that arrives we'll need to reorganize the kitchen cabinets and ditch most of our existing stuff. Most of it's quite worn and was mediocre quality in the first place so I'll probably pass it along to friends for their camping gear. Don't talk to me about the kitchen junk drawer though. Just don't.