What a week! Since my last post, things have been a total whirlwind. Katy came into town for a long visit, then my folks, and I've had a miserable headache since they left, so, no posts for a while. Sorry gang.
Let's see... a couple of interesting occurrences to report. But first, some eye candy. Katy, Carolyn and I went shopping along Lover's Lane and I brought home this birdhouse:
And since he was between semesters, Jeff dug up the old azeleas across the front of the homestead, and planted new ones, as well as about a zillion and a half impatiens, begonias and ferns among other flora. And I planted several hanging baskets, which at the moment are not exactly hanging yet. Here are pics of the results:
Still with me? Okay, the first interesting thing that happened was early Thursday morning. Ro got up at 5:30 (can you believe him?) and headed up to the treadmill as usual (grrr). A while later, Lazybutt (me) wandered out, put on the coffee and started to go out the front door and get the paper, but I stopped short at the sight of a half dozen white vans, including one with a huge satelite tower on it, and a local news crew filming on our front sidewalk! Wha? I zipped upstairs and gabbled "Did you realize there is a news team broadcasting from our front lawn?" Turned out they were from the CBS station doing a report on enforcement of water restrictions. They did broadcasts all morning from our front yard! Yikes! The flowerbeds looked great, with the lone exception of a pile of debris due for cleanup that afternoon. So what was in the camera shots? The crud of course. Ack. No idea why they chose our yard, as it was pitch black when they set up.
And this is the iron bunny who watches over the courtyard, which brings me to the final tale (tail?) of the week. After sightings of cute little bunnies at the Arboretum, we were charmed to see one hopping around the courtyard on Friday afternoon. We'd never seen one out there, although we had several wild ones at our previous house, along with Peter and Eddie, our pet rabbits who ran loose in the back yard (not recommended). Then Saturday morning we realized the bunny had wreaked havoc on all the new plantings, leaving a trail of pitifully severed stalks! In a nanosecond it went from "that cute little bunny" to "that damn rabbit!" No further damage or sightings since then, but we are armed with a recipe for pepper spray that is reputed to repel the hungry beasts.
I'll post more garden pics on Flickr in a bit. And there is more stuff going on than I have time to babble about, like Vicky's Finish What You Have, Angry Chicken's May Tie One On gallery, and the soon to be shipped out Club Little House goodies including Alicia's china cabinets (so cute)!
Cheers,
Jenny
