Providence Update

How do you like our beautiful April spring?  This was from 10 days ago and we awakened to more mountain snow this morning.  We've had lots of rain in between which has been great for Holly and my gardening projects.

Last week I transplanted about 20-25 large strawberry plants from a friend's overgrown yard and Holly prepared an extended version of my tiny spinach area in herb garden since she and I consume a lot of spinach.

The day after yard man sprayed all the lawns for weeds and give nutrients - it rained hard for most of day and night (so much for that spraying job).   Yesterday was beautiful.


  Holly took over and went to town (er... rather to the garden).  She worked for hours raking leaves, transplanting errant canes and made them into soldier rows in the north garden.  Then she placed many of the huge leaves in between all the rows. I tackled the roses, iris, grass outside it's specified areas.  She cleaned off area in north side garden that I had landscaper remove all those huge fitzers last year, turned the dirt, and then transplanted the rhubarb plants to a better place to get watered by the sprinklers instead of Gloria pulling the hose every few days.  They LOVE water.  We transplanted iris around the ugly utility box several days before the rains began.

Her dad would have been so proud of her, having a plan, doing the jobs in proper order and cleaning up all the tools and putting away (just like all my kids do when they're finished with a job).  Sometimes she'd send me for a tool and it took me awhile to find it as I hadn't studied her filing system in that wonderfully organized garage.  She  surely loved using the new shovel and rake that Lance/Becky gave me for Christmas

Tomorrow we're going to visit Andersen's to choose the new plants, ground cover, and lots of vegetables to plant to beautify and nutrify.

I've been to one dental appt - another one on Tue.  Saw my eye surgeon and have the have another surgery on both eyes.  Am scheduled for a colonoscopy in May but don't have to have an endoscopy now.

Here's a photo of good AF friend Barb Hammond after we met for lunch in Tucson three weeks ago.  Her husband Bill was dad's assistant on Guam and she and I traveled the Orient shopping for jewels and junk.  We spent time comparing our aging ailments which is par for the course of active adults.

That's it for now, loooooooove, mom