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Lilacs

May 3, 2024 at 7:50 am by Claudia

It’s been unusually warm this week, but it’s going back to normal today. This morning is sunny, the grass is too long (Don has to mow since my hand is still troublesome,) I’ve planted all my pots except for the ones in the secret garden. The warm temps supercharged all the perennials and they’re growing by leaps and bounds. Every day I see the trees leaf out more and more.

My favorite time of year.

Speaking of favorites:

They’re especially lush this year. And the scent!!!

Don loved filming the other day. It went well and he got home at a decent hour, which is a plus. He’s missed working so much. He says it’s like being home again. It’s a world he knows very well. In fact, this year is the 50 year anniversary of his first SAG job.

There is supposed to be one more episode in June. Fingers crossed!

I found out on Wednesday that my mother’s cousin, Jane, died. Jane was one of my favorite people. She was so kind and warm and generous. We often chatted on Facebook. Jane and my mom were both only children, so they thought of each other as sisters. Jane lived a long and full life. She was 90. But it does feel like the connection to my mother’s family is now gone. Rest in Peace, dear Jane,

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

Potting

April 29, 2024 at 8:37 am by Claudia

The other crabapples have fully bloomed. They’re simply gorgeous.

I see them from the window above the kitchen sink.

I ended up going to the nursery on Saturday. It was crowded, but not too crowded. I had an itch to buy some plants for the porch. I came home and started potting some of them but the wind started kicking up, so I had to stop early. It was so nice to see some flowers!

There is some of the lobelia that I use every year. (I’m nothing if not predictable.) Though, I did add an additional color to the mix.

Today, I’ll start to pot the impatiens. It’s suddenly very warm here – in the mid to high seventies – so everything in the ground is growing by leaps and bounds. We saw our first bunny yesterday. Adorable. The peepers are back – they were resting during the very cold nights we just went through. Two nights ago, it went down below freezing and now we’re having very warm days. Go figure!

My right hand is a bit sore at the moment, so I may not be answering comments. But I’ll definitely read them.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

Grumble, Grumble

April 17, 2024 at 9:29 am by Claudia

First of all, I apologize for not responding to your comments on dreams. I promise I will, but we’ve been busy working outside, as well as mowing, and Don woke me up in the middle of the night making strange noises and I never got back to sleep. On top of all of that, there’s something else wrong with Don’s car and we don’t have the money to fix any of it at the moment.

Oh, I could go on with this list, because there’s much more, but this is enough ‘poor me’ for today.

So. I’m sleep deprived and slightly pissed off at Don, even though he didn’t know he was making the noises. He felt so bad about the whole thing that he made both rounds of coffee today.

More crabapple blossoms! I never get tired of them. How can I? – they’ll be gone before you know it. Every year, I notice another crabapple tree on the property.

We have some rain due this afternoon and tomorrow. Then – fingers crossed – some dry days. We need them. I can’t even walk in the secret garden because it’s so waterlogged.

I took this photo of Lucy yesterday.

She looks like she’s contemplating some mischief. And I suspect she doesn’t suffer fools gladly.

We watched the limited series, Ripley, on Netflix. It’s based on Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley. It stars Andrew Scott (we are great fans of this man’s work) and it is exquisitely shot in black and white. Stunning to watch, but even more stunning is Scott as Tom Ripley. I really, really loved it.

Okay, my friends.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

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