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Entry for May 13, 2007
May 14, 2007 | 10:54 PM PST
Tags: cape daisy , mother's day , petunia , azalea , primrose , mailbox , vinca , mr k , beast , orchid , seeds

Mother's Day, slept through the alarm and just barely made it awake in time to get to church with my mother.  Snuck in just as the service was starting.  Was running so late I left the blueberry bushes and the card home, but it's not like I was dressed for planting anyway.  I'll go put them in the ground later this week.

By the time I got back home, after going to my grandparents' house with my mother to deliver a hanging basket overflowing with pink petunias, Mr K had been working out in the yard for a good long while, from the looks of things.  The mailbox area has now undergone a massive renovation.  He put one of the azaleas, both primroses, and a few of the leftover vincas from a prior trip out there.  What use to be about an 18" diameter circle around the mailbox is now nearly 10' long and 8' wide.  It still has some more room to plant things, but that's OK because we still have some more things to plant.  Of course the rest of the mulch was still in the back of the beast, so he was eagerly awaiting my return.

He's really been doing a lot out there this week.  But now we need to start concentrating on inside, because we're having company next Sunday, and we've been spending every waking minute on yard-related stuff, and that doesn't leave much time for keeping the inside tidy.  With 3 dogs and 2 cats running around, just the shed hair at this time of the year is overwhelming.

Gave Mr K's mom a pot of purple Cape Daisies for her birthday, and a hanging pot of vincas for Mother's Day.  Gave Sylvia an orchid.  I do believe that's the first time I've ever seen Cape Daisies before, and I'll be looking for seeds for next year.  They were neat looking.