Tuesday

What a lovely Tuesday. The sun is shining, the birds are singing. It almost inspires me to spring clean. I said almost!

Actually, I don't really spring clean. I try to keep up all year so there really isn't the major cleaning to do at any time. But, what I like to do is do a regular nice cleaning and then get the house ready for spring and summer. This involves getting out spring linens and taking down heavier winter drapes and bed stuff. Changing slipcovers on the furniture to lighter stuff. I clear most all of the knick knacks and pack them up and put out (less) more summery things. I take down, wash and put away the shower curtain and window curtains in the bath, as well as the throw rugs in there and swap them out for the summer stuff. It is an (close to) instant makeover that lightens up the house. So that is what I am working on today. Not quite warm enough though to throw open all the windows.

Also working in the garden. Our garden is going to be better than ever this year. For the first time we used a tiller instead of hubby digging and all by hand. We went to a huge plant sale last month and got all sorts of wonderful things. I still have some seeds to get going (I do them in waves so we have more things blooming longer).I do the same thing with lettuce. Plus it has been cool this spring so some seeds needed to wait. Rock got very ambitious a couple weeks ago and built a huge new pergola for our wisteria which is about 7 years old and needed something huge and sturdy. So we have this lovely new outdoor room.

My other project this week is to clean and paint our wrought iron patio furniture and get some new pads for the loveseat and chair. They need a nice sprucing up. I also have some large plain plastic pots that I am painting and then have to plant them. And then we got our daughter a new play house and want to get that up this weekend. I have an area we have been making a deck/platform to put the house on and then it will have plantings around it on two sides (it is in a corner and already has fence on two sides) to make it cozy and private.

Have a good one!