Gardening

Yesterday I worked in the yard pruning up the leggy branches I did some in the morning 45 min. the front yard after my 30 min. walk. After working on my fragrance cupboard a small shelf I'm painting letting it dry started in the back yard and got the west fence line.

My peace rose has turned in to a rose tree. I can’t see the blooms trees are in the way so I’m cutting it back. Next to it some lilies fell over so I cut them and they made a glorious bouquet when added with some roses for the dining room table.

The apples are heavy on the tree so I pruned them up enough so I can mow under them with out getting conked in the head with a green apple! The flowering plum has mini plums on it and I pruned up a few of those branches.

By the back fence the Rugusa roses (old fashioned ) I cut back these are not getting as tall as I’d hoped. So they are going to be replaced by hybrid teas next year I think. My peace rose is doing great and the other hot pink one is too. Now we have to haul off these limbs to eco.

Today we are heading up to do some farming the guys are fighting over who gets the mower, I’m just gong to watch. Dear grand son will be there to run and play and discover bugs and enjoy his first farming experience with acres to roam. I have some books to take, and my sketch book, and a journal.

In some of my readings "Discovering a girl within" there was a family that went to a farm on weekends to get away from city life it sounded great, we are taking the camper and will try this and see if we can make it a positive experience for dh on Sun. with some fishing on the place a homestead, or down the road a bit by the bridge, he said there was no water I said you can jump in the creek. He looked at me like a light bulb went off, like why didn’t I think of that? Dear son did that after his farming job went boating in the river and came home cleaner than he left! We will haul some water too. ->Moving this to next weekend due to weather concerns.