These days I spend the bulk of my time watering, weeding, some planting and transplanting. During the cold months I move my tender friends to the cellar under grow lights on a timer to imitate the natural sequence of light and darkness. I'm moving them outside now. In the past I've grouped them under the willow tree, but I don't routinely spend any time out there, so I'm trying out placing them on the patio under shade cloth. I hope I don't lose too many.

In the fall I potted starts of jade plants, succulents and a few other house plants, along with hens and chicks. I counted them, but I don't remember the numbers. It's around 50, I think. I did this to donate them to a local church who has a plant sale every year, where I've found a bunch of things to tuck away into my gardens. I need to find out if the sale is still on. I hope so. I don't want to tend all of them for a year. An added bonus is that I'm clearing out my collection of pots. I made the hard decisions months ago which pots could go. There are some nice ones that I picked up at sales, but they have lost their appeal, and were just taking up space. There are quite a few nice larger pots that are full of hens and chicks or succulents. We'll see how many of them I won't want to part with.

Good news. The part for my riding mower came today. My fingers are crossed that it will move. My feet hurt a lot when I have to use the walk behind mower. I can mow the lawns in 30 minutes with the 48" deck. It takes a few hours to do it on foot. I've not been able to get out to the pasture to dig thistles and fill holes made by ground squirrels. I can't do that much walking, so I need my lawn tractor.

Once again I've rambled beyond anyone's attention span. Bless you if you stuck it out clear to The End.

Jim