worked in garden

Worked on the garden today for a while, got the corn,swiss chard, carrots, beets planted. As soon as I had those planted it started raining, great bonus! I didnt get any sewing done today, had to do some cleaning of the house. Younger daughters last day of school is tomarrow so she is having a friend over for the night...2 silly teenagers in the house.

I have 3 yellow Iris that have bloomed, not as pretty as the purple but its nice to see them anyway. Im going to plant some more flowers, hope they do better this year than what I planted last year. The marigolds did well around the garden ( used to keep the rabbits out) but the carnations never came up, guess it was just to hot for them. Its a whole lot different planting things in dirt than in sand. For one the sand is so much easyer to dig in than the dirt that turns to cement it seems. But the sand drains so fast that you have to water more. Any way im going to try some straw flowers and maybe the carnations again. I'll get live plants of marigolds for the garden again. I have yet to plant the watermelon, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and snap peas.

We havent worked on the house inside since it has been warmer outside except to close up the one wall where we took out the window and we had to put up new walls for the out side of the studs and new felt paper over it, we are remodeling the bedroom, we had to take the walls down to bare studs and fix a lot of termite damage. The walls had no insulation in them and the room got very cold in the winter being on the north wall. The footer board 2x6 that sits on the cement blocks of the foundation was termite eatten and pretty well gone, we had some one come in and jack the house up and fix the foot board and the kick board. We have a little less than half of the room down to studs, plaster and slat board is not fun to work with at all. We are hoping the heating and cooling guy will get here and put in the air conditioner unit soon before we need to work on the room again. Right now we need to get a handle on the outdoors, grass and trees and weeds. We had about 1/2 an inch the other night and im not sure what we had tonight. With all the rain we are having a lot of weeds and the prairie grass grows like crazy. Naturally we have 2 kinds of grass the prairie grass that is tall normally and the buffalo grass that stays short to the ground, we like the buffalo grass it really doesnt need to be mowed. But the prairie grass does or it goes to seed and the seeds stick to every thing like socks, pants, dogs hair. But if you keep it mowed its not to bad as grass and it fills in real nice.

Well going to run for now will write more soon.........