Monday, February 22, 2016

Early Gardening Gift

The past couple of days have been unseasonably warm.  Highs in the 50's, and nice and sunny.  I have been able to get a good jump on my spring cleaning -- garden-wise that is!  My house remains nice and dusty.  Who cares, with weather like this!

I got a lot of dead perennials cut down and thrown away, and did some raking.  It did my soul good just to get out in the bright sun.  Ahhh!  I am looking forward to a wonderful gardening season.

I have been retired for 3 months now.  It is going pretty well, I give myself good marks on getting in the pool just about every day, Monday through Friday.  But I give myself lower marks for general laziness in the lazyboy.  I am hoping that nice weather will spur me out of the house every day!  I tend to isolate, homebody that I am.

Buying Tom B's sweet little A-frame pop-up camper should tempt me out of the house during camping season.  Dan and I are envisioning trips to Shawnee National Forest, as well as to Ergang and up north to Wisconsin.  I don't think we will be taking any drives to California in our 21-year old Jeep Grand Cherokee.  Even though it would probably make it, I wouldn't want to worry about having to leave it at the side of the road somewhere out west.  How sad!