Just Rambling....

Gosh, I don’t know if anyone ever even reads this thing since I don’t keep it updated as I should , but I’ll ramble on for a while anyway just in case… Anyone out there????? Hellooooo??????

I know that I posted a while back about my big plans to have beautiful flower beds this year and how I was going to post pictures of them periodically… My follow-through is terrible…. However, I actually have been working on the flower beds, and they are looking pretty good!! I pruned my roses a little too early and they ended up really getting nipped by the late frost, but only one of them seems to have suffered permanently. I don’t think that I will replace it until next year just in case it decides to wake up later. Some of them are actually going to be blooming soon!

In addition to the roses, my pie plate hibiscus are coming up, at least several of them. I have a few that are now in too much shade because their neighboring bushes have gotten too big – I really need to move them. I cannot wait until they bloom because they are so big and dramatic – I hope that there is enough rain to keep them pretty this year.

I have even managed to plant some bedding plants – marigolds, geraniums, lantana, and some sort of fuzzy blue flowers. And I’m keeping them watered and most of them alive so far!

Ian continues to do marvelously well, and he is such a joy!!! He is still talking more and more. Yesterday was Mike’s birthday, and I got Ian to say “birthday”. Then he started saying “birthday cake” all on his own! He got very upset when Daddy got a present but he didn’t!! He kept saying “present” over and over… Poor little guy… He continues to sleep well and eat well. We are very blessed indeed.