My Pretty Primroses

Here is a picture of the primroses I got when I spent the day with my sisters. They are so cheerful aren't they. My sister planted some a few years back and they come back every year and even rebloom. I will see what luck I have with them planted in this spot. See all the violets, every year I pull all of them out but the roots travel and its a big job especially under a tree like this. So every year I have violets blooming, both white and purple. Here and in the back yard too. No wonder it is our state flower. It's the flower for my birth month too so I guess I should like it, right. I do but it is so invasive and it seems to crowd other plants so its a lot like a dandelion I think.
Hope your having a pretty day today, Sandra

Friday already

Where does the week go I wonder? It was just Monday wasn't it? So I had a nice week and hope you all did too. Didn't do much because I don't remember where it went, LOL
Yesterday I went out with my sisters for the day and we had a wonderful day! I LOVE my sisters. I am so blessed!!!!!!!! We started out at a coffee shoppe and ended up at a restaurant, can't do better than that can you? I haven't eaten much since either but am now starting to get hungry.... only had coffee and a yoplait light so far.... gotta figure out what to eat.... I would rather go out and look at a menu wouldn't you?  :)
My plants and bulbs came in the mail so now I have to plant already. I have to plant them as soon as I get them so I was outside this morning planting. Didn't get all the bulbs in yet but perhaps if it is nice tomorrow I will finish with my bulbs. I planted 25 today and 10 mini roses and 3 little plants.... darn I forgot the name already and just got them at Steins yesterday.... darn, too tired to go and look for the tag but they are cute little plants and so colorful too. Early spring bloomers... just like the one Janice planted in her fancy pot.
So it really feels good having the plants and bulbs in the ground like I'm supposed to and now I will be worried about my expensive bulbs from Dutch Farms until  I get them in the ground too. I suppose I should mark the spots now or I may be digging them up again.... I have too many so I guess I will take my chances. Some of the lilies I had in the ground are already coming up, some just peaking through and some about 6 inches high or more already..... and the tulips haven't even bloomed yet... Its going to be another beautiful summer I think!
Well, I guess I had better go and get my little dogs in and do something around here.... they are talking about food on QVC and they are really making me hungry... those Ribs they sell sure look delicious.... I don't eat much beef though so I will pass. I ate a hamburger yesterday with all the trimmings and it was good but I won't be eating beef again probably for another few weeks or more.
   so hope you are having a nice day today.... looks like the sun maybe coming out. :)  Sandra

Cloudy sort of rainy day

Even if its a dreary day I feel good ! I took the movies back from the rental place this morning and did a couple of loads of wash and straightend the bedroom and kitchen and went out and worked in the yard a little... Good day to cut the roses back in between the showers. actually it hasn't been raining for a few hours but is still cool and cloudy. Just right for cutting the roses back as they won't get harmed in this kind of weather. so far all that I have cut back are growing nicely. I cut back 9 so far and still have 6 or so to go...  Its also a good day for pulling weeds as they come out with the whole root attached. I should be still out there but I figure slow and steady wins the race, LOL after all I have all summer to work in the yard now.
  I may have some extra work to do in the following weeks if I can't get our sons to do it.... Leo went to the doctor yesterday and he explained the procedure he will go through with his eye lid and its more involved than we thought... He won't be able to do much around the house for a couple of weeks after. He won't be able to start the lawn mower ~ can you imagine how the grass will look at this time of the year not being cut for 2 weeks? It will drive him crazy I just know it. If anything happens to his eye lid because of him working we have to go to Appleton to see that doctor. I hate to drive but I will have to if something happens so I think I best learn how to cut the grass don't you? I used to cut it all the time when Leo was working so its not that I don't know how etc..... just don't know how to pull that cord to start it as Im so short and is fixed for someone much taller and I don't know how to use the rider...  He cannot pull that cord either as it may hurt his eye... I will just convince him we have to wait until Gary gets home and that it doesn't all have to be done in one day...Its going to be interesting for sure.  I just hope everything goes well with his eye and soon it will be forgotten.
  Hope your having a nice sunny day, Sandra

Cool sunny day

Did you ever have one of those days?????? I'm having one of those days...:>(  It's not a good thing is it.... I had a hard time sleeping last night because I was angry and trying not to act it... at a stupid race .... I don't think the races should be at night so I have time to calm down when the winner of the race purposely runs into my driver that was in first place... he ended up in 12th and the guy that hit him won the race. This should not make me so upset so maybe its this cold cold weather and maybe its just because.... I feel like screaming and so far its under control and I only complained to my husband once.... he kept coming by me and I kept telling him to leave me alone because I was feeling crabby.... the more I told him the more he kept asking me things and hanging around me.... He even bought me a present thinking that would work.... It didn't. Im ashamed of myself but I think I'm doing pretty well compared to how I feel.  Putting on a good front but I feel like yelling.... what oh what is wrong with me. Hope tomorrow is better.
Oh and if you got this far I wanted to tell you I watched the other two movies and enjoyed them both... You probably saw them before as they are a couple of months old at least I guess...The first one was "Wimbledon" and the other one was The Terminal with Tom Hanks. So if you want to see either one I say they were both pretty good. In the mood I am in today I watched Tom Hanks because when has he ever made a bad movie? It took my mind off my bad mood for a couple of hours.  Now I'm going to play a couple of games and watch a little tv I guess..... Make this cold weather go away .... Please. I was so happy when it was warm and everything was growing so nice... its still growing but I can't be outside watching it unless I wear my winter jacket...... Hope tomorrow is warmer. :)Sandra

Hi, I feel much better now..... not feeling like yelling anymore etc. :)  I just finished watching Pope Benedicts Inaugural Mass .... It was so nice. I haven't heard a mass in latin for sometime and its so funny all the prayers came back to me.... It really was beautiful.

Cold weather again

Not much to write about today...I went to Home Depot ( sorry about that it was Best Buy) today to see the new store and to see if they had some kind of a vacuum to clean out my keyboard.... they didn't but sold me some of the compressed -gas duster in a can. Not what I was looking for because sometimes I eat in here and crumbs seem to fall in between the tracks no matter how careful Iam..I do occasionally turn it upside down and bang it and then take some file cards to get the dust out but I thought a vacuum would work better . I did find a couple of mesh baskets though to put my picture cd's in so it wasn't a lost cause and I also got to see the new and improved store.
I also cleaned out one of my little flower gardens a little as it's starting to grow and some things needed pulling out and cutting back and there were leaves stuck around the sticks that needed cutting back... everything I planted last year seems to be growing... I hope this cold weather doesn't kill anything though... They had been talking snow again.... can you imagine after it has been hot enough to turn on the air already  ( we didn't)
I went to the video store to get some movies and so far watched 2 and both were not worth watching..... did you watch that Robin Williams movie? wish I hadn't as now I may have bad dreams. Maybe the next two will be better.... they look much better anyway. I will tell you tomorrow I guess.That is if its another cold dreary day. There is a Nascar race tomorrow night though so I will be watching that.... better than those movies I saw today anyway. :)
Hope your days are sunny, Sandra

Really Really COLD again

Another picture Teri sent me from Disney World... now I wish I were there as they are having nice weather. My son Mike called me yesterday and said he actually had to wear pants ( shorts were too cool) My kind of weather in the 70's. He says its cold, lol He got a new gadget he had to try out with his cell phone. He has a head phone attachment now where he doesn't have to use his hands so he wanted to know how clear he came in. It was perfect. He talked to me while he was driving to the store and while he was grocery shopping... Its a good idea not to have to hold the phone while driving don't you think? Funny though I kept thinking if this was a few years ago and he was talking to himself someone might take him off to the looney bin don't you think, lol
Well I have to go and find something to do. Its too cold to go out so I guess its house cleaning day today. Leo is fishing, naturally. One of these days I'm going to grab him before he gets a chance to go and maybe we can go somewhere together... :)
Anyway I hope you are having a nice day today, Sandra

Back to cool weather

Teri, my daughter in law went to Disney with some of her friends from work and made sure she showed me how much fun she was having.... seems she had to take a break and have some frozen confection because it was so warm. She just happened to stop at one of my favorite places too. She also sent me a couple of other beautiful pictures. I guess she wants me to come back for a visit... If I knew it wouldn't be as hot as it was when we went the last time in May. They are having their flower show time now and she knows I could spend a couple more days there about now... not to be though and she didn' t know it was just as nice here yesterday, haha
  We had grocery shopping at Woodmans big grocery store today. A once a month thing but I only get things I can't get anywhere else but Leo looks for his favorite things and he has a list of things he likes to buy every month... he thinks he is saving money but we spent a bundle anyway. I guess we have to eat though don't we...
When we got home Leo dug out some dandelions we had all along the curb. Now if he would help me and get rid of the ones in my flower gardens. I found a weed in one of my gardens that must be a foot tall already. I  couldn't believe how fast it grew already. Its still there come to think of it as our son Dan was over and we don't see him all that much and we had a lot to catch up on.... if I wait long enough maybe I won't even have to bend over to pull it out, LOL
  Sandra