Spring in Pennsylvania

May 3rd - Saturday - Cool and rainy

This is one of the reasons we wanted to get back to Pennsylvania in May to enjoy the spring flowers that we have planted in our yard and surrounding areas.  They are coming along rather slow; however, that just gives us more time to enjoy them.   We are about a month behind what we normally are.  We usually cut our grass for the first time around the 15th of April and we will probably cut it this week.

Lou got the fertilizer spreader and roller out yesterday ready to do the yard and the yard tractor is all ready to go just waiting for a warm dry day to complete the task.  I raked off one side of the bank yesterday and planted my poppy seeds.  We have purchased our onion sets, rhubarb and pansies and we are anxious to get started.

Lou and I took his sister to the airport on Wednesday as she is going to spend a month and half with her son and wife in Texas so while we were in the area, we stopped into see a new great granddaughter that we had not seen in person, and she was kind enough to allow us both to sit and hold her while she napped while her brothers played with their trucks.  They are pretty happy to have a baby sister.

Busy at play

Thursday was our 5th wedding anniversary and we spent the day running errands.  We had put this off as long as we could.  I hate getting groceries, but the time had come.  We have been home a week, and had pretty much consumed what was in the motor home, so off to the grocery, brought that home and put it away, and then to Mansfield to Lowes with our list which was lengthy and, found some nice plants that were 50 percent off.  They just need some TLC, which I can do, then we went out to dinner.  All in all it was a very nice day.  Seems like we have celebrated for three months, as we have had such a good time this winter and have done a lot of different things.

Today, I have tackled the house, and Lou has spent the day with Donnie, doing his check book and getting his affairs in order and that has been a challenge and after eight hours, he is still working on it, but he is now working here at home.

Today is the first day of Turkey season and our side hill has a huge flock of the sly birds walking across it.  We heard them yesterday while we were working outside and then saw them late in the afternoon and again this afternoon.  Big Tom is strutting his stuff!