We’re actually a couple days into June and I love this time of year. The plants are coming round, The birds are enjoying the new birdbath. Life is good.

It’s the time of year when we usually take a few day trips to state parks. Seeing as our tent and trailer camping days are over we supplement our wander lust with simpler jaunts. This year we have done fewer than usual but still getting out among the creepy crawlies and the birds and frogs does us good. We do have a place near the Wisconsin Dells that we love to spend time at, but our medical and other schedule has kept us from doing so. So we get our joy where we can.

Our upstairs tenant was going to build a raised bed in the backyard, but nothing has transpired on that front — to date. My planted wildflower seeds haven’t done anything yet. Perhaps the overnight temps have ben too low. We’ll see. Peg has been on a mulch kick this year, and we seem to keep making more trips to the garden center for more bags of the stuff.

We did get a bit energetic and put some 80 landscaping stones along the neighbor’s fence when we did that rototilling a couple weeks ago. Lots of weight and hard work but we had no need to rush and we’re happy with the little changes that make the place look more lived in. When we first moved here it appeared to my eyes to be too sterile and untouched. The lawn was perfectly manicured and weed free — which I can’t say now — but everything else was just too prim and proper. It’s starting to look more like home to me.

Being unable to get down on hands and knees because of a whopping big abrasion on one knee that is still healing I’ve been standing back just LOOKING at things for half a week now and I’m not sure whether new ideas have begun to sprout. Have to see how that all works out.

Our rose bushes are almost looking like it’s June — the big month in Milwaukee for rose blooms. One is just a couple days from breaking into color, the other bush at the front of the house which. is new (planted last year) is still building roots and structure but it’s looking good for just that long in the ground.

And that’s about it for today’s update. Check back again tomorrow and we’ll see what’s on my mind. :-)