Yeah, I didn't post for two days. On Thursday I was on the phone for three hours with my sister. Friday I was too tired when I got home. I made reservations for a vacation a little later this year. That's something to look forward to, and that's almost as good as having a vacation right now.

As for today - well, I had all kinds of grand schemes about what I was going to get done. Most of the important ones got taken care of, but I planned to spend half an hour out in the garden this afternoon. It was warm - or at least not bitterly cold, and really the garden has been neglected all winter. We're starting to have a few flowers (I think they're crocusses, but I don't even know how to spell it, so don't count on it). So I cleaned up some of the dead leaves etc. that somehow multiplied, even though I got them all last fall. And I tied up the rose bush and the ..... uh, climbing tree-like thing on the trellis. Yeah. Those are both things that came with the house. I don't think I would have the guts to plant them myself. (Or the success. Two out of three bushes I planted last year are dead.) I was pretty frustrated with them both last year, but this year I made friends with them again, and I think if my ties all remain intact we can remain friends throughout this summer.

There's a sort of hedge-like thing (made up of trees that I think are usually not put in hedges) that I trimmed too. I don't know if this is the right time of year for that sort of thing, but I figure if it kills them then we can start over with plants we know more about.

So anyway, my half hour in the garden turned into three hours, and only darkness drove me indoors. I thought about doing some more painting, but decided a trip to the grocery store and doing laundry was more important. So maybe I'll get to the painting another day this week.