Thursday, May 23, 2002

Looks beautiful out again. :-D

The peas are looking good, starting to climb.

Wednesday, May 22, 2002

Another gorgeous day! We had a little rain yesterday but it was apparently brief (I was inside a museum for a couple of hours and when I came out, the ground was wet). So, it couldn't have been much of a shower. My husband also raked yesterday and the lawn is lookin' good!

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

Warmer today, with few clouds. Yesterday, I spent some time clipping the tall stalks of grass which the push lawnmower misses (my husband did most of this work :-D). It's good that the grass is reseeding itself, but the tall stalks just look, well, they don't look so good in little bits around the yard. There are a few places where we've allowed the stalks to grow. They look like sheafs of wheat and so are kinda decorative. But in the middle of the lawn I'm afraid they've got to go.

Monday, May 20, 2002

A lovely day though a bit chilly. Egad, it's 2/3 of the way through May - we should be having warm weather, e. g. Spring jacket or no jacket. Instead, it's bundle, bundle, bundle! No wonder some plants just can't (warning: strange metaphor ahead) get off the ground.

Well, the flowers which I thought were attached to one of the grapevines turned out to be attached to some other plant, so I don't know what the heck they are. And, of course, that means that I still don't have grape flowers. Hmm. Looks like it'll be the fourth (fifth?) grapeless year. Oh, well.

It seems that the sunflower seeds I planted a couple of weeks ago are finally coming up. At least, I think that's what those plants are. I've never grown sunflowers before, so I'm unsure about what they look like when they're just coming out of the ground. Could be weeds. Who knows?

Oak tree pollen is again very high, and mold pollen is considered moderately high, per the Weather Channel. I'll be outside and I'll be working in the garden, but I'll also be the one you hear sneezing. Atchoo!

PROGRAMMING NOTE: I'll be away on Friday, so there won't be a post then. Happy Memorial Day!