I have been busy this weekend. Finally worked on some things that have been left undone since Jo Lynn got sick! My house has a small atrium between the dining room and the kitchen. We always keep if decorated with plants, both green and flowering. It is easy to do since the atrium is protected from the wind and cold. And even the summer sun only penetrates for short time. Anyway all the plants were dead! I hadn’t watered since Jo Lynn went into the hospital! I didn’t let it die to protest or anything dramatic like that; I was just uninterested. So it became a “stick garden” my son observed last week!
So with company coming and having grown tired of looking at the dead plants I decided to resurrect it yesterday. I drug out the old plants and dumped them. Went to the nursery and bought several kinds of blooming flowers, lots of planting soil, and I spent all afternoon cleaning the atrium and planting it anew. Today I brought home a small spruce tree that will fill the corner space and planted it too. I am pleased with it and this morning the humming birds returned to treat themselves to the nectar. It is very satisfying to look at it now. Not a big thing I know but it seems important to me.
But of course…I looked at the newly fresh plantings and recalled that Jo Lynn and I used to work together to do these kinds of chores.
The outdoor landscaping is also pretty poorly tended, just the gardener who come to mow and trim. Some plants are old and scraggly; some died from frost last winter and need to be replaced; and the roses haven’t been tended for two summers. I think I will try to get to the worst of it this fall. I know I will appreciate it once it is done.
This evening my step nephew and his family will arrive to spend a couple of days with me. They are very nice people and I look forward to their visit and spending some time with them. Will is part time professional photographer so I enjoy talking to him and learning what projects he is doing.
I’ll close this off for now and go eat some dinner.
