One of the last flower beds to be done

Sassy is really not helping here ! This is the last of the flower beds that needed attention. Looks like I have to move a few things around. The Black Eyed Susans are started to over run my Stargazer Lillies and Daffadils. We have a resident ???? skunk or chuck living in the rock. What ever it is, it's making a path and knocking down some of my flowers ! The only other ones we have to do are around the lamp posts coming up the drive way.... saved for another day... we're done for this day.

Flagpole Up

This was one of the other project for today... A little late for Armed Forces Day, but it's up for Memorial Day.

Getting things done

Wednesday, May 20th.. what a gorgeous day out !! Reminds us of Florida... almost.
We had taken the cover to the porch gazebo off for the winter so it wouldn't get weighted down with snow. The metal framing stayed up.. kinda bolted to the deck... after a wind episode last year took the whole thing off and flying, landing upside down on the ground many feet away from the deck. Anyway, this was the first project for the day. It's nice to have it back up.

Steam engine

Just happened to be in the right place at the right time I guess. We were coming back from the cemetery this afternoon when we happened to catch her. This is a weekly excursion from Tunkhannock to Elmhurst every Friday. It might be nice to take her up there sometime. Man is she loud when she lets the steam go.

The LindeeB Apiary

As you can see, we have lots of hives to fill ! The second week of June we will be getting 4 Russian packages.. that's about 3 lbs of bees in each package (45,000 each) plus the queen. Bet the post office will be in a buzzz over that !! Yep, they are coming express through the USPS. I expect a phone call about 5 am :) I've got three set up so far out by the woods, just need to put the second story on them. Keep tuned in for their arrival !

Yard work

The other part of our day consisted of flower beds. Butch is in the front and I'm actually by the tree to the left. Didn't get the barrel up and filled with water or put the old fashioned pump on it yet...tomorrow's another day. Butch got most of the back of the house done while I worked at my "other" job. The only bed we have to do now is the one down by the road... sorta. Now we have to get the mulch on everything we cleaned up. Wonder how many truck loads that's gonna take ?????

Cemetery

Today we spent part of the day at the cemetery getting Brian's (my son) grave weeded and re mulched. I was glad that everything came back up after the nasty winter we had. As always, we left a space in front ... don't know who puts things there, but we always seem to find a planter of sorts when we check on it after Memorial Day.

We also did Butch's mom who isn't too far from where Brian is. Took a couple of Rhododendron over to plant on each side of her stone. The Azalea we had planted in the back didn't make it over the winter. Guess we should get some dirt around her stone as it seemed to have eroded some.