Greg: Indeed it is always Spring or Summer in your neck of the woods. You guys have it too easy out there! I may live in the Arctic, but I'm a tropical guy at heart. And this horrific winter has sealed the deal, I'm moving south this year, come hell or high water. I would love to be surrounded outdoors by lovely plants like yours instead of a five foot mountain of snow outside my window, and the dull brown and grey of leafless trees. Good job on your plants, all looking great. Christopher

Cyn - I just remembered to come look for your photo - love the touch with Daffodils!! We still have a little snow, where the big banks were, but it is dirty and almost gone - now it is allergy season!! Yea. I have done a little bit of cleanup in our new yard. Dear god, how much crap the last people left under the snow!! Kids small toys everywhere and garbage and recyclables under the deck!! What a mess - also hundreds of cigarette butts!! We have a postage stamp-sized front yard, which I raked, as I wanted to get the crap out of the way of anything that might come up - tulips noses coming out through the ice!!! Yea. Hopefully they have enough oomph in them to bloom. Love this time of year, despite the allergies!! Nancy.

As Joey reminded me -- today is the first day of the SABG plant sale. They always offer a lot of good plants for our area.

I need to purge closets, cupboards, dressers too. We have lived here 33 years, and it is worse than I thought. First, I am starting with the kids' rooms. They don't live here any longer, and if they don't want this stuff, I am going to ditch it! I am also babysitting my 4 and 7 year old grandsons so that their parents can visit the wine country with their other grandparents. Therefore, no cleaning projects this week other than mopping up, laundry and cleaning sticky fingerprints off everything. This post was edited by sheilajoyce on Mon, Apr 14, 14 at 18:33