This and That for Tuesday

Some more purple in my garden. This is the ajuga border that a friend told me I would not like. I dug it up from the woods and transplanted it here.......not thinking that it would make a nice border. It goes on and on for several feet. In the spring the lovely flowers bloom in this shade of bluish purple and when the flowers are gone...there is a mat of pretty leaves changing to burgundy in the fall. I keep it in bounds by just pulling it up and making the row tidy. Then I toss the "pull ups" back into the woods and sometimes it takes root and grows again back there. All in all a very nice plant.

I have been thinking about the woods....this is always on my mind. I'm sure I bore you with all the discussion about what to do there.I realize that the discussion is in my own head. Joe thinks it's time to give it up, but I have spent so much time and money there...it's very hard for me. This morning, lying in bed, I thought of a solution. I have a couple of religious statues there and I'm thinking that I will get someone strong to bring St. Francis up to the border. He's been back in the woods with kind of a garden in front of him and a metal trellis behind him. It looks sort of like a Church shaped window. Bringing him up to the border would mean that I can just maintain along the edges and let the back just go. Things grow so tall back there, that he would be covered in no time....and I don't want that. He's very heavy, so now I have to find some burly man to do the job. Joe struggled with him years ago, but he can't do that anymore.

I'm planning on giving our bedroom a good cleaning today. I've thawed some chili so dinner will be easy.  So, I have to get going and get my work done. Later on today we are going to get rain and some stormy weather. It's really helped get things established in the garden...the rain I mean. Our little visitor didn't make an appearance last night. I'm wondering if he was trapped.

Well, time to finish up here. Breakfast to make, cleaning to do, and my project today....find that burly man to move  St. Francis.

Balisha

Later:  Found that burly man. Jeff came to mow the lawn and I asked him to move it, only if he thought he could do it without hurting his back. We went back to the woods and he lifted it...but his face was as red as his shirt. I don't think he realized how heavy it was. Now St. Francis is right up front and I can forget the back part of the wooded area. Now, tomorrow I will try to make the front part look a little more manicured and the wildlife will have their woods back.