Sunday

Ah, the irony. Today it was approximately 82 degrees. In case you missed it, here's what Tuesday looked like. Welcome to springtime in Colorado, folks!

We took advantage of the abundant high altitude sunshine to work on our neglected yard and flowerbeds all day yesterday. We have an itty-bitty yard and I often complain and wish it were larger, but the truth is we can barely manage to take care of the little spot of green we have!

The soil here is naturally very full of clay. Yesterday I dug out a whole section of plants that have taken over; there was so much clay in the dirt it was like digging through Play-Doh. Ugh. I worked some Soil Pep through it to hopefully loosen things up and the next step is going to be a liberal application of fertilizer. I want to plant the hollyhock seeds that Linda sent to me so I need to make sure they will grow! I also have some seeds for the most gorgeous *pink* poppies from my Gram's garden that I'd like to sow. I tried them last year but they never took, which is no wonder considering the condition of that dirt! While digging out those plants yesterday I found tons and tons of worms. I don't know how they managed to dig through all that clay. Super Turbo worms, I guess.

Alas, but I didn't go garage saling yesterday. I woke up at 6:30 a.m. and the weather was gorgeous but I was grounded! The grounding was self-imposed, as I didn't get any of my eBay stuff written up this week and that had been my big goal. I will be out of town this week so I won't get anything done for it until late next week, and with a 7-day auction it will be a while until I can make any money, and that's assuming anything sells. I may give myself a reprieve for next Saturday, however; we'll be out of town and I think on-the-road thrifting is definitely a good enough excuse for un-grounding!