Dear Husband mowed for the first time this year on May 6th!
We don’t generally push the mowing season. One of our neighbors was out mowing two weeks ago, but he has a pocket yard that is treated by one of the lawn companies. Our lawn finally needed attention today.
We had a beautiful sunny morning, but clouds have been moving in, and we’ll have rain later tonight, tomorrow and tomorrow night. This will probably kill off our tulips and daffodils, but it will make way for the lilacs, peonies and iris, so it’s not all bad.
Dear Husband takes the boat to Lake Michigan on May 16th and quilting season arrives the same day! *G*
Arrrgh!!!
It's just my state of mind!
You are trying to make my Hunky Husband jealous–right? He has already mowed 6-10 times (who counts?) Our tulips and daffodils are all but gone, as are the lilacs, and we’re entering into iris blooming time.
Happy boat widowhood 2008! ;^)
Cop Car, you are just far enough south of us to make us really jealous conserning the length of your growing season, but I, for one, will take the shorter season if it also means I have fewer tornadoes to deal with. That’s not my idea of an acceptible lawn mower. *G* I’m guessing that you are about three weeks ahead of us, bloom wise. I should see iris by late May.
We have dark wine irises and yellow/white irises–abundantly–and zillions of buds on all sorts of irises just chomping at the bit to burst free. It’s a banner year. (The hail Tuesday night broke one of our hummingbird feeders, and frazzled the yellow/white irises, but didn’t seem to do any other damage. It sounded as if the hail would come through the windows at the front of the house it was driven so hard–pea sized.)