Yard

Here's the very last pic composition left to show from when the construction was underway out my window. These are my fav toys, out on the deck after getting a majorly needed cleaning. Wish I had more time to spend with them. Repeditive motion from work this week is numbing out my hands. Hopefully I'll find some "can play' time before the week-end's over. I'll have to get some greener shotz for ya soon.
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We had beautiful, sunny Saturday here on the Upper Cape, a bit on the chilly n windy side of nice. It's the first non-rainy, over 45 degrees (Farenhiet) week-end day to be had here in over a month! All the great weather days have been work-days so far...
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I had a good, long, just putter-about day. Lotsa stuff was checked-off the 2-do list. Got out to recycling, n spent most of my daylight workin on the yard.
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There was enough dead wood out there to build a raft, almost... I picked-up rubbish all over the place. After hand-mowing the patchy grass, BBM n Baby-J stopped by from their walk to play awhile. We had fun plucking dandelions n finding other flowers.
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A couple of red Tulips are up several weeks early under the Ash tree and there's at least 4 more buds, up from the usual 3 blooms around Mother's day. The nieghbor's son, Alan, once picked them to give to his Mom n got in trouble. That's how I always remember when they bloom.
The blue Periwinkles on the R's side are beginning to open up also. They're one of my favs. Got some up on the deck in a container not ready to bloom yet there. Buds are coming up on the Lillies of the Valley, n Tiger Lillies are sprouting their green shoots.
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Tree pollen season is just beginning, mostly Maple. The trees're all beginning to show leaf-buds finally. This week the bright yellow Forsynthias have been predominant on 2-work drives. I've been taking 24-hour allergy pills to help me deal with symptoms. My eyes still get very itchy, n I get head-aches. Can't wait until the whole trees-coming-out thing is over.
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I love the yard this time of year, before the people downstairs come in for the summer n take it over. I hate it when they weed-whack all my favs here into oblivion, (Periwinkles in the lawn) as the man has a crash-n-burn (killing) gardening talent. It never occurs to him to move plants to more appropriate locations. He just kills them, until nothing is left. Ya may remember I mentioned last year I finally walked him throught the yard, pointing out where not to weed-whack, n saved some of the perrenials, like the bramble-roses that weren't being allowed to mature enough to blossom.
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This time of year I spend awhile moving the spreader-species about to different areas, to fill bare spaces. That's how I ended up with alot of deck-container baby fir trees (from out of the lawn). Now I pick off the cones before they drop off the tree. In the house the cones open to drop seeds I can plant in other places. I also put some in the downstairs gardens.
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I've got tons of seeds from last years annuals to plant this year. It's not safe to plant outside until the end of May here, usually. I try to do some early indoors, but don't have alot of space, then they tend to get knocked over by my kitties a bit, too.
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I've definately got a green enough thumb to be a farmer, if I only had a farm... Ah, someday! I always wanted a greenhouse too. For now, I'll have to make do with getting banished upstairs all summer, with my containers on the deck. The deck is actually the best (n largest) room of my apartment!
But until Memorial Day, the yard is mine!