Working in the Garden, Filling Pots and Window boxes with Plants

Another sunrise, what else

The blog website has been down all morning, so this is the first chance I have had to get on.  I went off this morning to Jamestown, was finally able to pick up some ivy geraniums, as they seem to be in high demand.  Evie, meanwhile, has been able to weed most of the garden, and now she can start putting the geraniums in pots, fill the window boxes with petunias, and we will have the outside ready for late spring, perhaps early summer.

The weather was supposed to change today, and I can feel it in the wind though this morning has been sunny and warm, around 72.  Thunderstorms are supposed to come in later afternoon, early evening and rain will stick around on and off for a week.  That's more like Chautauqua weather; I was kind of getting tired of the sun and blue skies every day.  The lake has not been very busy, few fishing boats but there's a tournament this weekend.  The only action seems to be the martins, as they madly fly through our yard, looking for straw to build their nests, noisy and chattering as they go.  There must be 10-15 swooping though yards, picking up straw, flying our to their houses.  Like us, they are getting ready for summer.

Well, it's raining as predicted, late afternoon, with some thunder and lightning though the rainfall so far has not been fierce, just nice and gentle.  The yard looks great, the garden's weeded, and the grass is freshly cut.  The lake is back to what I call Chautauqua gray but I don't mind it as much as I did before having this past week of sun.  And I like the roll of thunder, the first this spring, as long as it's not too close.  We are having an easy dinner tonight, of precooked ribs from Trader Joe's, one of our favorites, and pair it with potatoes and coleslaw and we have a great dinner.  I do love ribs and these are so easy, just right for two people.  A lot easier than all the prep that goes into barbecuing your own.  There are not ribs from Jack's Stack in KC, which Tommy gets us when we are visiting, but they are good enough for the lake.