where have I been?

Where have I been? I see it has been ten days since my last post. Besides not being home at times, a few days ago I knew it was going to start raining and continue for days. I tackled my large flower beds with a passion, digging out grass and weeds, fertilizing and planting flower seeds. Sometimes I find a volunteer that I can save. Hours in a row at hard labor for two days and I was looking for my bottle of pain killers once I got out of my recliner. Now I am fully recovered and still have two beds to do but the rain beat me to it. Oh well, someday!

I have no rhyme or rhythm to my flowers. I like a variety and happily accept any and all that appear on their own plus the many that come up every year. I had company Tuesday. I took my friend for a tour of my flower beds and garden. It's like giving the history of my family tree. The fern peony was a piece of my mother's. She always called it Mother's Day peony because that's when it blooms. The vigorous dark pink peony, already three feet tall, is my Grandfather's. He died in 1924 when my father was 12. When we moved to Iowa from Missouri in 1961, Mom asked Dad what he would like to bring with him. He said he wanted to go home and get one of his dad's peony. Just before he died, Grandpa planted a row in the front yard. I brought some of the tubers to my house. In a pot in my rose bed is a portion of a Christmas cactus that Mom held on her lap coming to Iowa. A neighbor gave a start to her in the fifties. It was fifty years old or more and belonged to the neighbor's mother. I have some wild geraniums I picked up while mushroom hunting. My mother in law has given me tulips, roses and other flowers. With all of that and more, I still can't resist picking up a few packages of flower seeds or some bedding plants to go with what I have. It's in the genes. That I'm sure of.
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