A Smashing Weekend

Good morning all. Happy Monday!

This weekend was positively brilliant, we lazily accomplished a great deal and I love weekends like that!  The heat was a bit much through some of the day, but as the afternoons cooled, they became really conducive to me being able to do things I needed to.

On Saturday, my friend - Kwacha - came over and mowed for us, while Mark worked some more on our concrete patio-type strip for my plants. I transplanted 3 gardenia plants into one huge pot and started 6 more gardenia cuttings in diluted Miracle-Gro and rooting powder on their cut stems. My goal eventually is to have a couple, in pots on the front porch to add a fragrant whiff to the air as we sit out there, and to line the back right hand corner of the field fence line, as that is where Mark's beehive will be from next Spring. I am trying to get a bee friendly environment set up down there ready to welcome them.

Mark transplanted the 2 banana trees into larger pots. Eventually, they will go in the ground, but I haven't figured out where I want to put them yet.

Yesterday, I pulled all the old vines out of the pots. Peas, beans, cucumbers and cantaloupe. All production now ceased, so they went to the next part of their journey, the compost bin, to help replenish the soil for others, in future.

We took a second chance on allowing the chickens out to roam, while we were out there with them, and this time, they behaved themselves and gave us no problems in going back into their pen. I even got to hold and pet Maybelline for a little while.

We took a drive down to lake Greenwood, and parked close to a bank, where I could sit and enjoy the sound of the water lapping against the edge just below us. Very calming sound, that is, to me.  There was noise from partying people and others enjoying the day, but it didn't spoil my enjoyment.

We restocked AVON brochures in Ingles, in Mauldin, and delivered to a new customer up on Pelham Road, which gave us a chance to see all the changes up that way, since we had last been up there.