The green beans are coming up in the garden!  The Blue Lake beans are coming in very nicely, while the Royal Burgundy beans are just beginning to pop up.

 

The butterflies are out in force right now, with all the spring flowers.

 

The garden is coming in!  I'm really surprised, since Cindy and I just planted it last Sunday, and I have baby zucchini and cucumbers coming up this Sunday!  I have one lone bean plant coming up too.  I did get new soaker hoses delivered on Sunday (thank you Amazon!), but ran out of oomph yesterday to get them put in. Considering we had a full weekend of rain, I have a couple of days before I have to start watering.  As a side note, finding the soaker lines on Amazon was a validation for me. I went into Home Depot and was told that they didn't make soaker lines for drip systems.  Turns out, Home Depot actually carries them, just not in the store. So much for the Home Depot employee that told me that!

 

I came down with a spring cold on Friday. I kept thinking it was just allergies - Cindy M and I went out shooting on Thursday night, so I thought it was just pollen over-load from being outside in the wind, but....it was a cold.  I did almost nothing this weekend.  Saturday I made it through grocery shopping, but then sat and watched TV the rest of the day (definitely not my norm). Dinner was leftovers and I didn't even clean up the kitchen from that.  I did feel better on Sunday (a good thing since I left the kitchen and the rest of the house a mess) but still not 100%.  Better day today I hope!  Cindy and I went out past the Coleman Fish Hatchery to shoot - it was a beautiful evening - and then out to dinner.

 

Some of the Spring flowers on the River Trail:

 

Some of my scenery shots from our walk on Sunday - it was a beautiful day - warm but not hot, sunny with some clouds to add interest, and great company!

 

The newest project - a baby quilt. AJ sent my last completed baby quilt to one of his friends last month, so I decided I needed another in my stash - you never know when one will be needed, and when I have to time to make one.  The two don't usually go together. 

 

Some of the wildflowers on the River Trail on Sunday:

 

Busy weekend! Cindy C. came down for the weekend, and I got a ton of things done, and still got in some good visiting!  Friday night after she got in, we went to Turtle Bay Arboretum and picked up some tomato plants, and on Saturday we picked up a few more plants at various places, including Wyntour Gardens and Home Depot.  Then, on Sunday, we put in the garden!  (This was after walking the River Trail Sunday morning as well - we got our steps in for the day - over 24,000 for me!)  After we got the plants in the garden, we re-did my drip system, using what I thought was soaker hose instead of the drip line that I used last year.  Notice that I said "what I thought was soaker hose"?  Turns out that it wasn't soaker hose, so we put in a whole closed watering system - no water getting to the plants. After work today I'm heading in to Home Depot (again) to get soaker hose....but Cindy got a chance to play in the garden and plant some flowers - something she can't do at her place until the end of May/first of June.

Here are some of the petunias we put in:

The tomato plants:

Cucumbers, Zucchini and green beans:

Green peppers, Jalapeno peppers, and more green beans:

 

More spring flowers!

 

Just another day of mundane tasks interrupted by the cats....no wonder it takes me so long to tidy up the house! After I shoo them out of Alli's room so I can make the bed neatly, they come sneaking back in to "help" some more!  Poor James is usually on the receiving end, too, though she does plan her own attacks on Jessie.

But after "helping" me so much, I find them curled up like this - just too cute for words!

 

Some things never change....AJ and I took the dogs out for a walk, and we had to stop for him to skip some rocks in Clover Creek.  We decided that this summer he needs to go on the other side of the then-dry creek to bring back all the rocks that he's thrown over the years. There aren't very many skipping rocks left on our side of the creek!

 

I just received a new bag that I ordered - a very nice sized (18X18) shopping bag that has a photo of Susan's on it  - she's gone professional!  Susan Tangeman Photography has options for her photos turned into usable art, and her work is beautiful!!!  I've been gifted every year with her annual calendar (which is what got me into making my calendar every year) and she just keeps getting better and better.