April Flowers

4/23/19

After a beautiful warm Day, we are now back to the 60's and chilly. It's sunny, but not sandal weather. I guess I need to be patient. Pretty soon it will be too hot for my liking! 

Yesterday, I decided it would be a great day to go out to the local garden centers and buy some houseplants. I like having a few plants around to beautify and help cozy up my house and every Spring I kind of go into a plant-buying spurt. 

I wouldn't say I have a green thumb, but I can grow things. I can also kill things, but that's another blog for another day. At one time I even managed a small flower shop. I always enjoyed making up planters and transplanting plants into bigger pots. There's something very earthy and refreshing about giving a growing plant room to spread their roots. 

One of my favorite gardening activities this time of year is buying flowers and decorating our deck. E Truth be told, I end up buying too many. But, I just love it...for about a month until the rains come and drown my planters. Every time. Can't begin to tell you how many hundreds of dollars have been wasted out on my deck, but I can't help myself.  It makes me happy to look out my patio doors and see my beautiful planters bursting with flowers. We always have birds flying in to feast on the goodies in our feeders and butterflies hovering around the blooms. It's heartwarming. If I lose a little money along the way, it's part of the circle of life. 

But all of that will have to wait a bit this year. Mr. Quilter Cook and I will be painting our deck. It's  not terrible and frankly with a big outdoor rug we could cover the worst part- the floor- completely.  We aren't do-it-yourself types, but when it comes to ways we can easily save a few hundred dollars and not hire a professional to paint a simple 10x10 deck, we'll do it. 

So, I'm in charge of scraping the railing and the spindles- the high work. He's in charge of the floor and going around the outside where needed-the rest. I'm anxious to get started on the project so I can go buy my flowers and set up the table and chairs so I can sit outside with my morning coffee! 

I'm thinking that's our weekend plan...and afterwards...guess who's going shopping for flowers???

Enjoy your day!  

Rhonda