I love days off
I really do. Sleep in, have a leisurely coffee. Read a book for a while. Wander off to the post office where I pay my rent. Then home again, where I noticed the roses had new flowers so I cut a few for my kitchen. Three yellows, two reds and a beautiful pink edged cream one. Then, I spent a couple of happy hours wandering around in my front garden. Of course we all know it isn't exclusively mine, but let's not get bogged down in technicalities. I can see the whole front yard from my door and window, so that's good enough for me to call it mine. I pulled on my new gardening gloves, got out my recycling tub, the new secateurs, the new pruning saw and went to work. Deadheading the roses , sawing off a lot of dead wood from them, pulling out odd bits of grass and some young thistles here and there. I had a wonderful time I have to tell you though, most of these are old fashioned rose varieties, with thorns . Lots of thorns. BIG THORNS!! Even with the g...