Spring's Hope

On the free table at the thrift store was an 8 inch square plate decorated with a green border and a potted flowering plant.

This plate started a small sequence. I cleaned the windows over the kitchen sink, removed all the paraphernalia usually is found on the window ledge, removed all the dust. 

Regular readers will recognized my Mom's green salt and pepper hens and maybe even the vintage plant pot found last year at one of my favourite church sales. This plate started my spring's hope post. 

When I looked at the back of the plate - Made in Italy Exclusively for Starbucks Coffee Company. 

Following my spring's hope theme I tried the other end of the window and added my Mom's very old teapot to the grouping and subtracted her salt and pepper green hens.

You can see the moss on the cherry tree in my back yard - that tree is taller than the house and does worry me when the wind storms are severe. It has kept the back yard and the house shaded since we moved here in 1981 and every once in awhile there is a bit of a discussion.

Two of the over-summered/fall in my garden (in their pots) amaryllis bulbs are finally blooming, they took a long time to send out their flower stalks and I notice that they are not as robust as the fresh from the garden shop blooms.

I am (sort of) looking forward to getting outside and starting my garden clean up. I didn't clean it in November so some rubber gloves over cotton gloves and boots are going to come into play when the weather reaches about 9 C. Two dogs and several months of cold wet weather will make that job so much more fun.

Oh boy, until I took pictures of the back yard today I did not realize how much work there will be tidying etc. Maybe I will break the work into 30 minute work sessions. I'll let you know later. Maybe 15 minute work sessions.

DGS (almost 14 !) and I are working on a clean up the backyard deal. I pay him by the minute and he keeps track of each minute he works. I don't boss him around and he works independently. I plan to clean my garden area while he deals with cutting downed branches to size (for the municipal pickup) and moves them to the front yard and builds a pile.

The dog next door has broken two fence boards (by the blue chair) by rather mean (and extensive) barking and throwing himself at the fence when DGS's dogs are in my backyard so I put a piece of metal fencing against the wooden fence and held it in place with the chair for now. 

Right now I am not feeling thrilled about the amount of work that must be done but since this happens every year I know it will get done, likely just more slowly than I want it to happen.

Then this happened on Dear Son's birthday on Monday. Very unusual for coastal BC near the US border. The weather man just said "winter is not done yet".

Thanks for visiting today.

Oh, and here is a peek at next Thursday's post - it involves a lot of flaking and chipping and gluing and staining and stuff that makes something old usable again. Hugs Donna.

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Sunday
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Monday
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Tuesday
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