Christmas Notebook

A few days ago, we noticed that the lightening rods on the back of the house had fallen over. DH went out on the roof last evening to see what was up. Or down…anyhoo, the big wind we had last week caught the edge of the roofing and lifted it and folded it back along the south side of the house. All three lightening rods on the south side were down, one completely off and tossed down to the roof of the enclosed back porch area.

After making repairs, DH took a few pictures from the roof. A new perspective on parts of the yard. 🙂 Here’s the east side of the front yard. The driveway along the right side is the neighbor’s drive which sits between their yard and ours. At the top of the picture is the street that runs in front of our house. The closer driveway is ours.

The roof is about 44 feet off the ground. You can get a good view from up there. This picture shows our driveway. We need to remove all the plants from the center, put in about 18″ of topsoil and replant. The center of the drive sits lower than the many-times-rocked-over-the-years driveway. When it rains several inches or more, we get a temporary lake there.

He laughed at me when I told him I could tell from this picture that the birdbath was not centered properly in the fenced garden. Guess we’ll be fixing that today… ;-D

~~Rhonda 🙂

It’s a busy time in the garden right now. Lots of flowers, lots to see, lots to do!

This old fashioned yellow iris is a great performer in the garden. It will bloom continuously for a long time, filling the iris beds with large areas of color.

This large white iris was given to us by our friend Liz, many years ago. We call it “Liz’s Big White.” 🙂

The first daylily to bloom this season is ‘Bitsy,’ a small yellow one.

The hosta ‘Candy Hearts’ is sprinkled with the last of the dogwood petals.

The peonies have started to bloom. This is ‘Honey Gold.’

‘Shirley Temple’ is a very pale pink peony.

Peony ‘Krinkled White’ is one of my favorites. The petals look like crepe paper.

We don’t have many rabbits in the yard, thankfully. The cats keep the population down. But this one has taken up residence in the front yard.

We are preparing for a church picnic at our house on Sunday. Lots of yard work to do. We shall see if the weather permits us to get it done or not! DH and our nephew did get the fenced garden mulched, inside and out. It looks so nice!

That’s one of my favorite places to sit in the yard.

You can enjoy more gardens at Bloomin’ Tuesday at Jean’s place.

~~Rhonda