THE SUNDAY GARDEN

Such a lovely weekend.  The weather has been perfect -- sunny, hot, just beautiful.  A real summer weekend and I am loving it.

Today's sunrise.

 I did a lot more Friday and yesterday than I should have.  Even though I was resting a lot, I just wanted to get stuff done.  I did a lot of wash and am almost all caught up.  Yay!  And I worked on my jungle of a yard.  There is still a lot to go, but it looks so much better.  I would do a little bit and then went and put my leg up for a half hour or so.  It took a long time doing it that way, but at least I didn't stress my knee.

The grass really needed cutting.
 

So that was the first thing I did.

Then I weeded around my gazing ball.

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Next I did the little flower bed by the house.

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 I found my geranium.  Fortunately it's still alive and blooming.  I see lots of buds on it.  The other is a red impatients.  I hope it will bloom again.

I changed the garden flag.

And righted my little cat statue.  I don't know what this plant is (probably some kind of weed), but I thought the leaves were pretty so I left it.

I have a large pot which had pansies in it last year, but they all died and the weeds took over.  So I cleaned it out.  I'm going to get a nice mum to put in it for the fall.

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 The herb box was next.  Out go the weeds.  My parsley and thyme didn't make it, but I still have basil, oregano and chives.  Lots of chives.  I even found my little frog and added him to the empty space where the parsley and thyme were.

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 Lastly I did the box that has my coleus.  It was a mess, but look how nice it turned out.  I was given a sunflower by the children's librarian at work and I added it to the coleus box.  It's already growing and doing wonderful.

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 I know it looks like a lot, but since I did it over three days' time it really wasn't that much.  I still spent most of my time off of my feet.

We went to church today for the first time in three weeks.  We had a guest speaker because today was the pulpit exchange week in our denomination.  Each pastor speaks at a church not his so people get to meet him.  Our pastor came back before we left, so we got a chance to talk to him too.

Then all afternoon I spent laying on the sofa watching TV.  Not a bad way to spend the day.

We had pork steak, green beans and mashed potatoes for dinner.  And we watched the sun set as we ate.  I always think the sunsets are prettier than the sunrises.

 
 It's back to work tomorrow.  I know it's going to be hard, but I will do the best I can.  Joe has already gone to bed, and I am going to join him.  We will watch some TV until we fall asleep.  Wish I could stay home every day.  Soon.

Partly cloudy
High:  81 degrees at 3:05 p.m.
Sunrise:  6:23 a.m. EDT
Sunset:  7:40 p.m. EDT