My garden work

Last week we had a couple of really nice days, so on Thursday the garden/dirt bit hard enough that it sent me out to work. I have a problem getting seeds planted. I like to buy them, but then they sit here, and by June, somehow they usually still aren't planted, and the Nurseries call loud & clear. I usually end up satisfying my craving for flowers by buying way too many plants. Even tho I try to buy perennials, they don't always survive, and my *budget* always feels the pain. This year (once again) I swore to do differently. I got one flower bed planted, and spent a good 3 hrs on some yard work exercise...for what? We'll see if it's worth it, two days later it snowed again, and got quite chilly. If this weather doesn't improve, I'll be buying plants again after all!!

Sunday

One of the friends here is retiring, and had planned a party on Saturday, however she canceled it because of all the rain/snow we got, too much mud where she lives, and some of us decided that maybe instead we could do a potluck here after meeting today.
Unfortunately I didn't take any picture of all the wonderful food & fellowship we shared, however I did get a picture of us 3 sisters and our mom together. We all coordinated so nicely, didn't want to pass up the opportunity!
Today was fairly nice, since our snow and rain, it's greened up the grass nicely, and now if we get some sun and higher temps, maybe our leaves will pop out! Even tho it looks warm out, we didn't stand around outside without our jackets for long!
Emmett is here visiting Relyssa for several days & over the weekend, so I'll probably have some pictures of them to post in a couple days.

Views from yesterday

Cold, windy & snowy!
We didn't actually accumulate very much snow here, it rained quite a lot, and then snowed quite a while also, however it was warm enough that not too much of it stuck. We have a light covering on the ground today and there is some very light flurries if I look close but the streets/sidewalks are dry.
I'm sure this will pass...but I am longing for sunshine & warm~
by the way, the beautiful house in the picture is only our view across the street, not ours! At least we can enjoy looking at it every day :*)

IT'S APRIL! NO FOOLING!!

Yeah!! I'm so happy April is here! Yes, I realize it's just a mind set, but when the calender says "April", it just SOUNDS so much better than "March"! It sounds like spring, green, flowers, grass...kinda like my header picture up there, which obviouslly isn't going happen around here by tomorrow, but I've sure enjoyed looking at it while it was busy being nasty cold & grey outside!
I'm so ready to go out and dig in my flower beds again, & get my garden tilled up. I have great expectations for my garden & flower beds this year...That's a good thing, because I won't begin to reach them, but that way I'll get further than if I didn't.

Right now we're in the middle of installing new rods, white-out liners, sheers, side-hangs & valances in one of the motels here in Kearney. I've never been free to help on one of Leon's big motel jobs before, so this is a new experience for me, and not a bad one, especially since it's awesome exercise! We're almost 1/2 done with it, and Leon just told me that our next job in Hays KS has to be done by the first of May. It's a new motel, so it will be a little easier and faster to do since we won't have to take down old hardware & treatments, and won't have to work around rooms being vacant like we are here for this one.
Well, I'm off for the day, maybe I'll take my camera today and see if I can get some pictures of what we're doing!