Survival

I've lived in Calgary most of my 35 years, and although we don't experience real hurricanes, I can say that I have survived a hurricane of the human kind. She blew in...stirred everything up....left some damage (repair may or may not happen)...and now she's left. All I have to say to that is, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

A sigh of relief & rejoice is heard throughout the land. Moving on.

I did some planting over the weekend. Of course, on the day I did this there was a gala force wind, but I so badly wanted to get it done that I just carried on. (weather today - sunny and no wind....figures). I'm doing some flowers & some edibles. Tomatoes, rhubarb, strawberries, raspberries, asparagus... so we'll see how those go. I'm going to do more food type stuff... but this is just a start. For flowers I did things that were recommended as very easy to grow, and will come back each year....bleeding hearts have always been a favorite of mine, so they went in...and some other things that looked great but off the top of my head, cant remember their names. I still have room in my flower bed....so I need to get some more bulbs in the ground.... and then in a week or so (weather pending), I'll put in some colorful bedding plants to really pretty it up. Should look really good when everything is popping up. Pool will go up in a week or so. Bought a larger one than we've had in previous years as now we have a bigger yard...and the kids are bigger....so bigger pool. As we're sticking close to home this summer, between the pool & Calaway Park passes, that should keep kids entertained.

I cant believe that it's already so close to summer. That was a very fast school year.....hoping it slows down during summer so we can enjoy it.