Only a Week and a Half Left!

You think I'm going to say "until Christmas", right?

Nope, not me. Only a week and a half left of...autumn. Yes, even though we've had snow that still hasn't melted, it is still technically autumn. This is important to procrastinators like me because tulips and daylilies still need to get in the ground before winter.

Now, what's funny is that I finally went out and bought new white tennis shoes. The old ones had given up the ghost and even I, being the fashion-less person that I am, could not stand wearing them with my toes hanging out anymore. The very day that I buy these new shoes, I decide I need to get those bulbs in the ground.

This is how I break in my shoes, apparently. Now they are suitably mud-covered. More importantly, next spring I should have hundreds of red tulips, and next summer, six or seven lovely purple daylilies.

Even though I'm not writing about blooms anymore (since they've all gone and died on me with the first snowfall), I am still working on getting more of those blooms next year. Because I just love flowers!

You know what else I love? Being done with gardening for a few weeks. Weeks, you ask? Oh yes. Doug will insist we start seedlings in January, so I get to enjoy these few precious weeks of not gardening or watering. Ahhhhhh.