One Week Down...already
Our first week of summer vacation has concluded, but where did the week go? It seems like we were just in school, enjoying those last hours of class before saying goodbye to friends. It has been a busy week, and pretty productive. The garden is looking much improved after being weeded. Flower pots and baskets have been filled, bird feeders reloaded, bird bath cleaned and filled, water fountain assembled and bubbling, and the fire pit area pruned, weeded, and ready for the season. The raspberry patch is netted (to keep the birds out) and I have harvested my first blooms from my one lonely (white) peony plant. I "saved" this peony fourteen years ago when we began construction on our house. It has struggled along all this time waiting for me to find it a proper home. Until a few years ago (when we had many of the pole pines removed from our property) access to sun was a significant problem for bloomers like my peony. Now, we get lots of wonderful flower-growing sunlight a