I KNOW that there are people out there who wait for the first warm days of the year, longing for heat, hoping for endless days of sunlight and beach sitting. I understand the longing for the light. I can appreciate wanting warm weather so that you can swim or sit by the shore.
However, the weather we had to day, and will have tomorrow, is my idea of heaven, especially when I need to work in the gardens! It’s supposed to be 60 tomorrow; almost cool enough to make it reasonable to light a fire! It was in the fifties this evening as we watched the 6:00 news.
As I have gotten older, I’ve become less and less tolerant of the heat. I love my gardens, but I have learned to get out a O-dark-thirty to do my gardening, because once the sun rises in the sky, it’s too hot for me to work. By mid July, if our Illinois weather is true to form, you won’t see me outside for longer than it takes me to feed the birds and water my plants.
So…Bring it on! Give me a day’s respite from the heat. I won’t complain!

We’re almost ready for the Red Hat Ladies luncheon tomorrow. We’ve gotten an astonishing amount done in the gardens this week, especially when you know that I spent two quiet days with back trouble. Dear Husband mowed a good part of the lawn today. It looked like he was making hay, because he wasn’t collecting the clippings and it had been more than a week since he mowed last. I used the string trimmer at the front and herb gardens, and I filled the wheelbarrow (twice!) with weeds and iris stalks.
As I walked down to the garden along the west of the driveway, I was looking at a tree where the drive bends a bit. I realized that the tree has the largest poison ivy leaves I’ve ever seen! There’s a root growing up the tree that must be parasitic. We’ll have to cut it at the base of the tree, and then cover ourselves in a week or two when we pull the dead plant from the tree. We could leave it, but the oil would still be there to do it’s damage.
Dear Husband is going off to sail for two days. We’re going to have breakfast together before he gets on the tollway, and I run my last couple of errands. I have to pick up fancy bread, flowers, red and purple balloons to mark our driveway, and my dry cleaning. I should be home by 7:30 or so.
We’ll be celebrating the 83rd birthday of one of our members. Her friend brought a beautiful birthday cake to us today, so that the celebration would be a secret. I’m sure it’s going to be a lovely day!
I have to iron a table cloth, and Elegante Mother will set the tables. I’ll need to tidy the bedroom, make coffee and iced tea, bake the ziti, and arrange the flowers. Not bad, huh? It should be an easy morning.