Getting Back to Normal? Decidedly Not!

Back home and trying to get back on a schedule. Easier said than done! My trip was long with lots of driving, appointments to keep and a strange city where even having a map didn't seem to help much. The good news is I accomplished what I went to do and made it home safely late on Friday night.

This was our weekend with the granddaughters and that means 2 full days of family, food, and fun. With help from my daughter that went well, also. Monday, I took a few hours for mental health(catching up on gardening blogs!) before getting back to 'real life'... errands, laundry, house cleaning.

This morning, the roofing contractors came at 7:30. Who knew they would start that early?! What should have been a fairly routine job of taking the old roof off turned into "the sheeting is in pretty bad shape...we are going to have to replace it all." So there goes my garden budget! This is a job long over due and we knew we might run into some problems, but why does everything seem to be so complicated these days?! :)

Now, I understood there would be some mess involved with the new roof, but seeing shingles on my budding iris gave me the shivers. They do have tarps down and are trying to be neat, so hopefully little real damage will be done.

These next pictures show why it is good to have a big sister. She will pull a low hanging branch down for you.

Let you get a good hold on it.

Turn it loose slowly.

And up into the air you fly!

Since this is supposed to be a gardening blog, I thought I'd include at least one picture of it. I never knew the name of this plant but earlier someone told me they thought it was a fern-leaf tansy. I like the color and am hoping it will spread. I would like to have enough one day to divide it.

And finally, I wanted to show you what we grow here in the prairie land. Corn! Field after field of it is coming up. I always get a thrill out of seeing the straight rows of green coming up and enjoy watching week to week seeing how quickly it grows. I thought I would do a weekly picture so you could follow the growth also. The soybeans are yet to be planted and I will post pictures of them when they emerge and start growing.
It is good to be back! I am wanting to get busy in the gardens as soon as I can. Time spent puttering with plants can calm a weary soul. I wish you calm time.