Week 13 of 52

                      this weeks project was to dig up and split my irises...they have been in the ground for I don't know how many years...every spring and fall for many years I have said that I am going to split these irises...they are so overgrown and tangled that I am surprised that they are still blooming...they do have a few blooms each year...hopefully they will grow and spread and bloom again even more profusely...here are a few pics of my work...

                                                    digging up and splitting my irises...

the ground worked and ready to be planted...

                                                          irises split and replanted...

                     when I was almost done I saw my first butterfly of the spring season...

Week 12 of 52

This week I decorated the front porch...put away the 'let it snow' decor and put out
                                                              the spring decor...

                                             The flower gardens are beginning to grow...

...so I put out the fence around my gardens so miss pris aka Izzy will maybe stay out of them and let the flowers grow...

...we feed the birds all winter...last spring I put out an oriole feeder after we had seen the orioles on our trip to Indiana...I saw orioles for a few days...then they were gone...this year I am trying harder to attract them to my yard...I put out this oriole feeder...with orange pieces and grape jelly...I know it's a little early but I need to be ready for their return...

Week 11 of 52

               What to do...what to do...I am beginning to feel a little mmm I don't know...not overwhelmed so much as a little short of time to do a project a week...I have been working four or five days a week for what seems like weeks now...yes hours are cut somewhat but getting up so early...4:30am...and keeping up with my everyday day stuff...who wants to come home from work at 2 or 3 or 5 in the afternoon and start a big project...takes me all the time to get dinner ready some days...

                                        Brown sugar and balsamic vinegar pork loin....

               Speaking of dinner...I did make a new dish last night...a friend of mine pinned it on pinterest...she made it and told me how good it was so I thought I would give it a try...Brown sugar and balsamic vinegar pork loin...you make it in the slow cooker which was good...gave me time to enjoy some of the record high day...Joe and I took Izzy for a hour long walk...

               It was such a nice day yesterday that I wanted to throw open the windows...so Joe cleaned the windows and I cleaned up the screens...and we got those back in...the windows were open all day...even slept with our bedroom window open...I am off work today but it is raining...it's not going to stop me putting a little more Spring around the house...going to dress up the front porch with my Spring items...I think Spring is finally here...

Week 10 of 52

                   This week has been a slow week...I worked four days this week so all I have done so far is clean out a few bedroom drawers and clean out my basement freezer...I had a bag full of old clothes etc. from the bedroom...no photos to post...take my word for it you don't want or need to see my underwear drawer cleaned out or otherwise...threw away some pieces of meat from the freezer...dated from 2009...yikes...I think I need to get a little bit better at putting away stuff in the freezer...need to put the new items under or behind the old items...so that I am cooking the older items first...

                 While I was cleaning out bedroom drawers I came across Adam and Aaron's folders of school work...these two young men are 23 and 27 and I still have their school work...I caught Adam sitting on the bed looking through his stuff...I think one of this months projects is to get a couple of three ringed binders and organise the boys school work...and yes I still call them my boys...

                I enjoy scrapbooking when time permits...so I need to go through all my scrapbook stuff...see what I have to work with...and I need to get my journaling done in my albums...the photos are in from our last trip just need to write about each photo before this mind of mine forgets where they where taken...

                                           So it looks like March is for Memories...