Yawn yawn - wakey wakey..!! Mk 4

Good morning everyone,

I'm frantically busy today and just taking a few minute's break. I've packed the boot of the car with plants to sell at the afternoon bridge club. Loads of sweet peas, some cyclamen corms, tom plants, courgette plants etc. After the club one of the members is coming back to pick up their 3 hanging baskets, 24 geraniums and 12 begonias. I'll be taking orders this afternoon for runner bean plants as well. he afternoon club gets first chance at plants before the plant sale in just under couple of weeks. It helps us as we need the space.

Still no rain and none forecast.

Kandy, I'd like to see those cats wearing your clothes

Have a great day :D

 

Good morning Kandy,Shiney and Penny and all my other friends,I do hope that you are all OK and well,still no rain,the sky is battleship grey here,but at least its a lovely relaxing pastel shade of grey :WINK1: everyone have a lovely day and please stay safe my friends.

 

Good morning everyone,

woo, it must be a big battleship as it stretches all the way to Shineyland

Kandy, good luck with the xray

Today is a day full of meetings . The first one is at 10 a.m. at the town hall of one of the towns near me. That means being caught in the town centre traffic which is something I always do my best to avoid. The last meeting is at 8 p.m. tonight and I won't get home until 11.30

The kitty for pre-sales of plants for the open day is building up . After having taken back the few hundred pounds of outlay we already have nearly £300 collected.

Have a great day :D

 

Good morning Kandy and everyone,

We finally got some rain yesterday (not forecast ) but it only lasted 45 minutes. It's very sunny this morning so looks as though we shall have another warm day.

Mrs shiney went out last night at 11.30 to go slug and snail hunting and collected a big bag full. I don't think she will be hanging them on the wall as trophies.

Have a great day :D

 

Good morning Kandy,Shiney ,penny and all my other friends ,hope you are all feeling OK on this bonus of a Fridayhave a great day and please stay safe my friends

5.15 this morning

 

Good morning woo, Kandy and everyone,

woo, a lovely sunrise again.

Kandy, I don't think the rain did more than bring out the slugs and snails.

Yesterday we borrowed a gazebo from the village fete. They very generously offered us gazebos and/or marquees but just one gazebo was hard enough to transport and erect. We shall need to give a donation to the village fete. The gazebo looks more like a big tent without the sides and is 20ft x 10ft with a high pitched roof.

It normally needs four people to erect it as it is in a concertina shape and you need to take hold of the corner posts and walk them backwards to stretch it out. It then needs to have its legs extended. The only way for two people to do it is to anchor one corner s we thought it would be easy enough to push a fork into the ground through one of the bolt holes in the foot. A good idea until we found the ground rock hard and couldn't get the fork into it . I had to put the hose on it and leave it for quite a time to soften it up.

Have a great day :D

 

Good morning everyone,

It looks as though it will be another warm and sunny day. I haven't needed to cut the lawns anywhere near as much as normal because of the drought.

I've just watcehd a magpie and a crow, on the lawn, tearing apart a paper bag and eating it

Only one week to go to the opening of the garden and there is a lot of work still to do. We're still pulling up the forget-me-nots and have filled three wheelie bins so far. The cow parsley has gone mad in the wild area and I shall have to cut it all down before it seeds. The Welsh poppies and the Californian poppies are taking a long time to deadhead every day and that is one job that I can't do very easily because my back can't take it. Mrs shiney has to do that job. She spent five hours yesterday trying to organise and label some of the plants for sale with loads to go yet.

I've just finished arranging parking space in neighbours' driveways for the 25 helpers and musicians and for one of the helpers to get here early to show each of them where to park. The tables (15 x 6ft) and chairs will be brought along on Friday and I'll have to go and pick up two tea urns from the village hall that day. I'll also have to mow the lawns on Friday. Friday night, when I get home from bridge at 11.30 p.m. I shall have to make sandwiches ready for the 25 helpers on Saturday.

I still have to make Garden Open signs which will have to be hammered into the ground, first thing on Saturday morning, on the roads approaching the village.

It has made me tired just thinking of all this :D

Have a great day :D

 

Good morning Shiney and Kandy and all my other friends here at Gardeners Corner hope you are all OK,its another beautiful day and of course a Saturday so its a double bonus of a day:WINK1:what ever you decide to do with your day,please enjoy and make the most of it, and please stay safe