Ooooh, Happy Monday! I feel like I’ve been gone forever but it’s not that way at all. It’s a beautiful sunny day in Edmonton, warm and practically WINDLESS. This is huge. I am grateful. Usually, we’re getting blown all over the place.

Last week felt like a write off, I spent a few days recovering from my Baby Love and then … I tore my bicep! That rendered me completely immobile.

Pro- tip? Don’t do that! I’m better-ish now but wow…that was an ordeal! I’ll you more about it on Wednesday when I also tell you about my experience trying cannabis for the first time in 35 years.

In spite of that extremely painful and debilitating injury I had an excellent weekend. We celebrated my son’s birthday, I saw both my kids, both my grandkids- and one extra child who is hilarious- but missed my daughter in law. I gardened (with much help) and I sat in the sun and enjoyed the natural world. Most of the natural world! The ‘Skeeters are out. I am covered in bites already!

How about you? What did you get yourself up to?

My granddaughter says I’m “weird” because while she’s convinced the little house that just showed up one day really does belong to fairies, she doesn’t believe they brought it themselves. “Fairies can’t lift houses! Grandma’s weird!” Ha Ha Ha. She’s found me out. And Fairies can SO lift houses … with magic OBVIOUSLY! Maybe they built it themselves, right there. She’ll be getting a letter via Fairy Mail that tells her a thing or two, me thinks 😉

This one makes me laugh because I’m a little bit of Human A and a little bit of Human B 🙂

I’m putting in some kale, cabbage, beets, zucchini, peppers, two kinds of mint, and some English Lavender. Oh! We also bought Bee Balm, a Hollyhock and some Pansies and Marigolds. This is all in addition to the tomatoes and cukes I just planted and the rhubarb and asparagus I already have. My rose bushes are doing great, my Honeysuckle came back and my wee Cedars are trying to thrive after a hard winter, the poor babies. My peonies are starting to bud and my helpful ant friends are doing their thing to encourage that.

My back yard is very close to being complete and then I can get working on the front. I have so many ideas and it was SO tempting to just buy out the garden centre! I want a Peony Tree and Elderberry shrubs. I want Wild Cranberries and a plum tree. I want a Burning Bush and Day Lilies and Globe Cedars and … OK. I want ALL THE THINGS. Maybe I should be a landscape designer and put ALL the things in other people’s gardens…it’s a thought…

Progress pictures to come 🙂