Are you curious about my yard before I started my “landscaping” projects? I was… so searched last year’s pictures.

Home Sweet
Home

2003 Carriage

Humming-
bird feeder

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The view…

Another view….

Bluebird house

Lake Lorraine

Lake Lorraine
at sundown.

Lake Lorraine

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The yard

The tree line.

View from the South.

Welcome to my yard.

Outside my front steps.

Planters in the yard.

From another site…

Isn’t this a
beautiful view?

Such a beautiful
old tree.

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Flooded yard (left).

Flooded yard (center)

Flooded yard (right).

Collecting rain water.

Collecting rain water

Flooded yard (left)

Flooded yard (center).

Deep water.

Rain gauge.

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Rain gauge.

Rain water.

Now you see why I felt compelled to purchase–and lay–cement paving blocks.

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The first cement
blocks for patio.

The first block.

The first two blocks of
eventual (to date)
ninety-two blocks.

Check back: More pictures to follow.

…an old lady infatuated with her garden!!

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Earlier….

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Later….

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Baby Bluebirds in the nest, in the bird house outside my kitchen window. ~~ That House Sparrow is a mystery to me. He spends **all** his time perched on the bird house or wrought-iron hooks. I imagined there were babies in the nest. I carried, and climbed, a ladder… and maneuvered the camera so I could get a picture. Empty!! Why does he continue to “hang out”??

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A $2.00 purchase at Dollar Tree is acceptable. Red, white, and blue flower leis to decorate the wrought-metal “tree.” However, too much money was spent at Tractor Supply and Lowe’s. I went to Tractor Supply for Mealworms for the Bluebirds… and was forced to linger for about forty minutes because torrential rain. With all that time…, I browsed the aisles and found numerous items “on sale” –and succumbed to the temptation. See the wind chimes?! I love wind chimes!!

More planter soil from Lowe’s–and a couple of planters I’ve had my eye on. ~~ Almost everything is still in the car because weather too nasty to unload.

Recommended reading !!!!!

My garden is a “thriller.” Sometimes I think it is a “killer.” I bite off more than I can chew!!

…so I’ll spare you a repetitious message!!

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One: You can’t keep me out of the garden. Two: I’m addicted to preparation of blog messages!! (Click each picture to enlarge for better viewing.) ~~ I honestly planned to ***NOT*** burden the reader with same-o, same-o narrative and pictures of my garden.

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Mid-morning and early afternoon comparison. (Thirty-seven pounds each.)

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Postscript, Thursday, May 21, 2015: Follow up!!

…my feet hit the floor running. It’s a wonder I didn’t fall and break my neck!! Thirteen steps, with several levels, between my bed and the patio. RAIN!! I had clothes hanging on a rack on the patio–items I didn’t run through the dryer when I did laundry yesterday. I quickly grabbed the items and moved them to knobs on cupboard doors. Later I moved the rack into the trailer. ~~ The extremely hard rain only lasted about ten minutes  but it definitely had my undivided attention!! (Maybe the oscillating “tower” fan will help air-dry the clothing??)

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Back again: Three-thirty PM. I published the earlier portion of this message at 6:30 AM–and went back to bed. Up at 8:30 and have been busy ever since. My two rain gauges differ regarding the amount of rain last night and this morning. We have sunshine at this moment and I plan to put the drying rack–and clothes–outside where they **may** get dry. Operative word “may” because too humid for anything to dry.

Good news: The storm has passed over and no damage at CARE (that I am aware of). Claps of thunder sounded extremely close. Pictures tell the story: Over one-and two-fifths inches of rain in less than one hour. ~~ Bad news: I’m praying the Hummingbirds never go near the trailer home of a dear, sweet, thoughtful, kind, loving neighbor-lady!! Isn’t it awful to wish bad things for good people?? She made nectar one cup sugar to one cup of water–in the microwave!! No, no, no!! Horrors!! The recipe is one cup of sugar and four cups of water–and bring to a boil on the stove. IMHO, do not “nuke” the water with radiation.

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I waded to the rescue. ~~ I doubt the Simpson lettuce, and Redina lettuce, will survive being flooded.

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Four PM as I publish this message. Still raining…; I thought it was over an hour ago.

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After the rain….

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The trellis is supposed to resemble a tree with branches and leaves. I brought it from North Carolina but never identified a place to use it (here). While shopping at Lowe’s (today), I bought cement (and numerous “prices slashed” plants 🙂 🙂 ). I’ve determined that it (trellis) will be useful as a portable decoration. ~~ After putting groceries away, I mixed the cement. The ladder is a support for the trellis while the cement dries. ~~ Below: Next day, Sunday morning, finished product. Further below: The trellis displayed flag patio lights for Memorial Day 2014.

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