“It Made Me Smile”
This is an older pic, but it just made me smile today . . . Sometimes it’s good to step back and reminisce a bit . . . Here I am at the close of the day trying to wind down, wishing that my children would’ve been better trained at leaving the house in a better state of orderliness . . . Ah well, tomorrow I can try again.
Had the most fun in the flowerbeds this evening . . . went outside all decked out with bug spray and long sleeves and shoes and socks to protect myself from the hordes of mosquitoes, but it really wasn’t as bad as I expected as long as I stayed busy.
On Thursday I had invited a gal over to enjoy the afternoon with me and after some tea and swing time in the front yard, we proceeded to tear into one of the flower beds that needs some major “maintaining”. Basically, we started shoveling everything up and getting all the crab grass roots out that we could and setting the perennials aside for replanting later. I wanted to start a bunch of baby hollyhocks in that bed so the other hardier, less preferred stuff had to go somewhere else and this evening after a day of rain, I dug up sod by one of my rosebushes and a few other flowers that were growing around the birdfeeder that is no longer there. 
Just such a lovely feeling to enlarge my “borders” a bit, dig in the dirt and envision the beauty yet to come.