Friday's Lookingglass.......

We have had a difficult time with our visitor that came to call, but we are about ready to bid that house guest a hearty good bye. It will be fine with both of us, if we never see that guy again!  Have you ever had a house guest or visitor that took up all your energy? I must confess, I "cooked" some take out and purchased bread from the market.........

The sun is peaking out every now and again, so the itch to work in the yard has pretty much taken over my husband. After work yesterday, the bulb bed in the front yard got weeded and barked. The iris and tulips will look great. The  Cottoneaster has new growth and the daffodils in the neighbor's yard are up and about to open. Spring is coming and we are so ready for it!

This weekend we will be working outside if only to bring home a twisted white birch and some homemade strawberry towers. The strawberry towers are from the experimental garden at work, this year's garden group does not want them. Enter my "freescaping" plan, to the rescue! Same with the twisted white birch, it had been a donation to last year's group. However there is not a spot to plant the poor guy into the ground and it has become stunted in the grower's pot.

(image courtesy of Fotosearch)

Our overall plan for the front yard is to have no lawn. With only trees, shrubs and flowers inter woven with walking paths. The white birch will be planted in the center and we shall work from there out..... I have to be honest this "freescaping" is fun. It also requires one to be creative, you just never know what you will find or be given!

There is a stack of cookbooks to put away, this brings our total to 467! Soon we will need to purchase another bookshelf......I have been asked, will you stop at 500? Yeah, I don't think so! Fortunately for me, my husband is my greatest supporter of this quest and hobby.

And the butterfly garden arrived, we have some planting and rearranging to do in the backyard. All of the plants in the beds under the eves will be move out into the open. This way we can capture not only the full sun, but the rain as well. Water around here is a premium, and it seems silly to water the flower beds on the same days it rains.

We will be stocking the freezer with meat and the refrigerator with produce, it is getting a bit bare in there. I hope to get back to cooking and have a recipe or dish to share with all of you next week. Spring always beings a Pineapple Upside Down Cake to mind..... 

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