It's been a good day here; a beautiful spring day. I can't believe how much things are popping the last couple of days! Redbuds, dogwoods, even azaleas in full bloom in some places! My front azaleas are blooming and those in the back buds are open enough you can see the color. The back area doesn't get as many hours full sun as the front. We planted one new hot pink azalea (added to a mixed bed); 3 white azaleas (had 3 pretty much die over the winter), 4 pots of lavender creeping phlox and two pots of candy tuft today. Oh and a new rose bush! Actually my husband did most of that after weed-eating! I placed the plants and watered. I grocery shopped this morning and nothing I needed was out-of-stock. Toilet paper and paper towels are still absent. I had to go to 3 pharmacies to find my dad's eye-drops (he has MD) and deliver those to his Assisted Living (someone met me in parking lot, they are on lock-down). Drove home the long way, beautiful backroads and just enjoyed SPRING! I'm going to make banana bread and I did make a small pan of brownies last weekend, but we are getting lots of exercise, so hoping that will all even out.

I had egg salad for my breakfast too. j Just a half sandwich. I was in a rush to get out the door to go ride. Passed the 90 mile mark in the virtual race today today! 10 more left. So proud of my school horse. We're sad it's coming to an end.

It's great to see your good news about your checkup posted. It seems there are a lot of nice young men out there still. I have run into quite a few recently. Warms the heart.

I mowed - again - today, I had just mowed last Thursday but the grass was so high already. Normally I don't like a "sheared" lawn, but I set the deck too low on my mower and didn't realize it. Since it would look weird to do the rest on a higher setting I continued. Golf course like lawns make me uncomfortable! lol Besides all the little wild flowers got their heads chopped off. Maybe I won't have to mow for awhile now though it being so short. There are so many violets and other wild flowers in the orchard that I have a hard time mowing them, so I leave small patches here and there. The ground itself is still very damp. Sometimes when I sit on a chair at my small table down there, a chair leg or two will sink right into the soil sending me backwards. I've learned to be quick to jump off! I think I will plant ever bearing strawberries in my mailbox cover this year just for something different. They will have a white bloom and hopefully have berries most of the summer. At least that's what I envision, will see if it works out.