Back on the Horse

This poor blog has languished for almost a year now.

It's the time of year when I get some spring fever. I take zillions of photos of the ice melt while I wait for the lake to open. I start obsessing on what will go into my flower beds. I get crazy crafty with little to no warning.

It's been way too long since I shared any of that. So it's time to get back to it.

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I was working on my cunning plans for my garden yesterday. Really, we're probably not going to do a garden this year, but I'm going to put in some of the ornamentals that I've been craving for the past few years. We want to put a section of fence up between our house and the new neighbor-lady's, and I am for sure going to get around to putting in lilacs to disguise it.

I want to find a nice, unobtrusive place to finally set up our composting bin that my mom got us for free, and get going on that. Maybe more lilacs will help to disguise it.

I'm hoping that I can get into the dirt while the ground is still cold enough to encourage some spring bulbs to sprout. I got a huge box of gorgeous bulbs from my mother-in-law at Christmas, and I'm hoping to get them to bloom this spring.

I'm also looking at moving my roses and putting in an entire rose bed, plus planting a slew of butterfly bushes and/or other goodies to attract butterflies. Maybe even a shade garden. I'm toying with a red perenniel garden to go around our stump. I want to put in tons of iris and other goodies in the bed I built last year along the house.

I think I'm going to move our tomatoes along the house and stake them up right to the house this year. In the existing bed, either more pretty pretty perenniels, or maybe a strawberry bed.

But for now, I'm contenting myself with smaller projects.

Because my flowerbed looks like this:



I made this today:

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With the warmer temperatures last week (now but a fading memory after our Nor'Easter on Friday), it was clear that I'm going to need some taller waterproof footwear for mud season. So, after much waffling, I settled on these wellies: