Totally Stolen from Marie

Dessert tonight is Marie's recipe.  It sounded too good to pass by.  

I think it's one of those "recipes" that you can adapt to your taste and situation.  Try it.  You'll like it!

Wednesday Workday

As warm as it's been since early April, I could have - perhaps should have - started on my containers a lot sooner.  But, there is a piece of me that has kept saying "it's too early - we could still get a night that's too cold."

But Saturday I finally journeyed to the local garden center (not a big blue or orange box altho I know they get a lot of their plants from the big national growers) and loaded up on annuals and bedding plants for the pots.

While I don't have a real potting bench, I have created a good potting space behind the garden shed where the two big storage bins are just the right height, and all I have to bring in is the water.

I finally realized that if you get all the pieces parts assembled and ready to go, putting together the actual groupings is pretty easy.  This year, I added a large new pot.  In its last life it was the keeper for a hose, but it just never really worked very well, so I drilled some extra holes in the bottom and added about a zillion cubic feet of potting mix and voila!

Sunday really was the first day that I've spent the entire day in the garden - cutting, weeding, digging, watering, the whole nine yards.  It felt great!

 

Happy Mother's Day!

To all the mothers...

and, all the grandmothers and aunts, 

and, especially to all the mothers-to-be.

 And, special good wishes to my sister-in-law, who added three wonderful children to our family and whose lovely daughter graduated from college yesterday!  Hotty totty!