An early start.

I spent yesterday moving a heavy piece of assembled decking around the yard.  My back today is going to keep me from doing a lot of planting, and it is a gorgeous day.  The flowers are out and ready, but, I’m a bit too sore to do much of that. 

I was up early today and sat down by the water on the little bench the niece-neighbor brought out a couple years ago.  We washed it down and oiled it earlier this spring on a couple of warmish days.  It is back in its spot on the porch of the shed and is a welcome place to sit in the morning, birds chirping and flitting about…a great vantage point for watching little dog walk all around the property.  I am glad to be back outside in these early morning hours, coffee in hand and thinking about my plan for the day.

 

I walked down to the pier, and out to check the bottom of the lake that I could see, before the lily pads take over, to peer from the pier.  Geese squawked from the lake, wondering when I would vacate so they could get back on shore to leave their droppings all over.  There were three sets of parents and their little goslings…cute but annoying. The mess they make of the shoreline irritates me.

 

A stroll around the house after a sunny day tickles me as the perennials have started poking up through the ground and unfurling their leaves.  I delight in what wasn’t there yesterday but is there today.  A walk out on the trail to nowhere and to the moon garden area results in a mental list…”If my back were not so sore today I would…” The squirrels and chipmunks have left big holes in the ground.  We will have to have a conversation about that, oh chattering squirrel.  That is not cool.

Continuing on the trail, I made note of the many clumps of daffodil leaves poking up without blooms.  I’ll need to divide those and replant, which I can manage a bit later this spring.  There are also tons of daffodils in bloom, so pretty, but more would be fine, too!

Back into the house to feed little dog and grab some breakfast before getting on with the day.  The walk did my back good, and my ol’ stiff knees.  Maybe I will be able to get out there and dig in some dirt after all.

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Spring marches on.

Yesterday I watched two white birds circle the lake, hover, dive and circle again.  I watched the birds for a long time, trying to determine just exactly what they were.  I am hoping they come back today, so I can get a better view of them.  Yesterday was just too cold to walk down to the lakeshore for a closer look; today is a bit better but, they haven't shown up yet.  And, no, they were not sea gulls but, thanks for that. I have my guess as to what they were but need a closer look to know for sure. 

I am not necessarily a bird watcher. I am more of a bird appreciator but it’s not something I spend a lot of time thinking about.  In the spring, though, like today, and in the morning, I am fascinated by bird behavior.  Like, right now, for example, I glanced out the window and way, way up in the sky is a big bird, circling, I can’t make it out enough to know for sure, but my guess is its one of the bald eagles that has settled in to our area. It’s cloudy today but the sky is very blue, and this guy was easy to spot, hunting for breakfast.

I need to shake it up a bit, however, and watching out my window is one of those things I need to consider...as in giving it a rest.   Complaining *almost* silently about the snow and temperature this early April is not how I hoped it to go, and being inside even less so.  Its going to stay pretty much mid-30s today which makes it just a little too tough to dig into the wood chip pile or to think about having some dirt delivered. I am going to shop for dirt. Of all the things I would like to have for the yard this year, a load of dirt is going to be the big expense. Maybe even a load of river rock. Hey, big spender.

I am watching a woodpecker out my window now and wondering how many holes it can punch into this particular tree before the tree gives up. From the looks of the tree, thousands. I really wanted to get a picture of him to share with you, but woodpeckers flit and he's being mighty coy.  Husband and I spent a little time in the woods this past weekend, surveying the trees, picking up limbs and sticks, blowing leaves off the walking trail, explaining my ideas for the moon garden and talking about undergrowth and “weed trees”. Grateful to be able to spend a little time outside, doing what we do every spring in unspring-like temperature, but it still felt good,  I may get about an hour in the low 40s mid-afternoon today to venture out and move around some rocks.. 

 

Yesterday I put out a call for help this weekend to put in the pier.  The weather is to improve a bit and the water should warm up, at least a little, as I am sure it is not the most comfortable thing to walk in icy cold lake water.  A bonfire might come in handy, even if in the early part of the day, and of course there will be food and drink.  Because, it’s a pier raising, and still a party.  


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