Rain, Glorious Rain !

  There was quite the thunderstorm Frriday night around midnight which continued well into the early morning hours.It wasn't predicted so I had left some windows open, but fortunately no rain came in ! Some of the thunder jolted us out of a sound sleep. I went out to the front garden and worked on the front beds, weeding and trimming. Another round of thunder and lightning prompted me to head indoors. When that storm was over, I was back to transplanting grass. Decades ago we lived next to a family from Kenya. Shiraz told me that in Kenya , grass is transplanted blade by blade. They had not known about sod. So as stray seeds had sprouted in one of the garden beds[ we had to redo the front after we had new weeping tile and a sum pump put in last fall], I have been transplanting grass- blade by blade. Most of them have 'taken' Now if our neighbours would control their weeds and suckers, our lawn would look a lot better !

ED and I took a trip out to YD's acreage to check on their cats and to take some plants. ED came home with  five and I came home  with 4. My mother had bought me some pink sedum 35 years ago. I had shared it many times, and then I lost mine. It was good to go and get a couple of sprigs; the sedum came 'home'. It didn't take long to get the in the ground once I figured out the spot !

Supper was meatballs. I added some finely mminced ham to the beef- and no one noticed. They glazed with some of the cherry jelly I had made 2 years ago, along with some spices. Looks like I have enough for supper tonight, along with leftover chicken and coleslaw.

Both sons went out last night to watch a fight on tv and were home before midnight. ED  came over to relax in the hot tub. One paper is giving her a lot of trouble so she needed to relax and then home again to work on it. So we weren't in bed until late !

My knitting is giving me fits. I have found a couple of problems with the pattern because of course it cannot be me who is making mistakes ! Hopefully I can finagle and get it done. Looks like I have to lengthen the  armhole  openings  for the back. We'll see what happens !  It is a frsutrating pattern.


Today hopefully the cherries will be picked. I wanted to do them yesterday but they were too wet with the rain. Then we need the slabs moved into place near the hot tub and beside the new garden. If I am lucky I'll get the boys to take out the day lilies as they have taken over. When that is done we can fix the borders, ready for next year. Hubby can then rearrange his rock garden  in the side garden. Who knows what will be acomplished !