Arrrgh!!!

I have had the most satisfying day!

We went to bed at 9:00 last night. I fought the urge to watch a little more TV or read another few chapters in my book. I hit the sack and slept soundly until about 5:45 or so. I was ready to wake, as the light was changing, and felt, at last, that I had gotten a decent night's sleep.
I left DH sleeping soundly, and had a cup of tea and some toast, before going to the office to work for an hour.

By 8:00 a.m. I was out in the gardens. I had planned to tidy up the driveway garden. It's the first garden you see as you enter our grounds. The peonies bloom there (or will very shortly), and there are some iris, perennial salvia, day lilies, bleeding heart, hosta and a lot of purple coneflower in that bed. I wanted to trim the edges of the bed, get one area ready for some rudbeckia, and pull a little grass that thinks it should live there. Instead, that work has been delayed until early tomorrow morning. Today, I worked on the north side of the house.

I have two areas of ferns on the north side of the house. The biggest bed really gets too much sun, and it's surrounded by brick on two sides, so it's probably too hot, too. But, the ferns have come back year after year. They have been spreading out into the lawn. I decided to dig the volunteers out of the lawn and replant them into one end of the bed that looked a little bare. Then I weeded most of the bed, and moved a timber over to create a finished edge to the bed.

I watered the ferns, and the herb garden, and then mulched around the ferns and watered them again. Then, I cleaned out a tiny garden box to the right of the back garage door. I'm going to try rudbekia there. It may like the heat.

And, I took a break!

When I went back out, I moved a chunk of English thyme, planted two silver thymes, a lemon basil, an Angelica (something new to try this year), and planted six tomato plants. I like the miniature yellow pear-shaped tomatoes for salads, and the Sweet 100 Cherry tomatoes. I planted a good-sized Early Girl bush tomato, and a Better Boy (I think..).

By 2:00 there was nothing more important than my date with the shower! I'm feeling (and looking) more human now, and I'm VERY satisfied with the work I finished. (Pictures soon, just for Janet! *G*)