Up And At It

My last post was August 2019, that's when between Blogger and my Apple computer I began to think I would not be posting anything ever again. Of course life here at Menagerie Manor does not sit still for any of this sort of nonsense. Family, gardening, traveling and so on has kept this old gardener busy. Our beautiful niece is getting married this summer and has asked MeMa and I to do the flowers for her big day. So I have been busy in the greenhouse filling trays of annuals early so that they have a better chance of blooming by the end of July.

Currently I'm still recovering from my third surgery for bladder cancer. The removal of two tumors and another dose of chemo has me feeling quite well though and ready to get things going. I planted a nice row of sweet peas in the new raised bed, a bit early but we had 60+ degree weather and the day before surgery had me out planting early. This morning we got a couple of inches of snow......
I took this as a bit of a swat from Mother Nature telling this old foolish gardener to stick to his schedule.

A couple of weeks ago we decided it was time to rid the upper floor of those cumbersome large computers and the desks they had been inhabiting for quite some years. This was part of our joint effort to downsize and clean out. All of our photos and some of the files we may need are now on an external hard drive and the old computers???? Well, properly recycled? We both have our own Apple laptops that can be worked on anywhere in this big old house. Currently I am sitting in front of the fire in my big comfy chair. And as you can see access to my blog has been restored. I have a lot of catching up to do with my blog friends and tons of reading blogs that I have not been able to follow.