Holy cow! It is already the last full week of May. Where did the spring go? I have been debating what to plant where and again the weekend has gotten by without me getting what I wanted accomplished. It was raining Friday night, so that was a washout as far as working in the yard. Saturday was sunny, but cool, but we had a birthday party to go to for our grandson who turned 4. What a wonderful age. We went to a pizza place for the party. He is one well loved little boy. Although, later that night, it was impossible to get him to sleep. Too much cake and excitement. Yesterday, I spent the afternoon outside planting flowers in various pots. Still have a lot to go. Maybe tonight.

Well its happened. The result from all the bush pulling and tree trimming this weekend, I have a case of poison ivy (or something). Its on my upper inner arm, on the inside of my lower arm, and on my fingers. I bet it makes my life miserable. All though I had on gloves, it still got me.

The sun was out but the air was cold. Chopped down a bush/tree that was growing at the corner of the house on Saturday. It was approx 25' tall and 20' wide. I don't know why someone before me didn't trim it back. Well its trimmed alright. Its trimmed to a stump in the ground which will be taken out this evening. It really opens up the corner of the house. I put some stone border around where I want the planting bed to be. I haven't decided what I want to do with the bed yet. I need to get some dirt to build up the planting beds. Also planted 2 azalea's in front of my porch. It gives some nice color there.

It is a beautiful day here in Southwestern Pennsylvania, but I wouldn't know it because I am holed up in my windowless office which sits in the middle of the building. I hope to sneak out of here a little early, so that I can spend some time outside digging up daffodils and replanting them. Every year I think that I get them all, but new ones pop up. I passed a house on the way to work that had some phlox blooming in differnt shades of purple and it just stood out from all the others along that particular road. I was struck by the brightness of it in the early morning light. Makes me want to go to the local gardening center and buy some flowers to plant, but I know that it is just a wee bit early for that yet. I'll bet we have one more frosty morning left...