T Stands for The Chore List

 Hi everyone. Happy Tuesday.

Last week my husband took the week off from work, and we spent it doing a lots of chores around the house. Not the most exciting vacation, but definitely productive. Part of the week the weather wasn't really conducive to being outside, which meant we didn't quite finish the to do list.  That always seems to  happen so it wasn't really disappointing.  Of course  writing the list is usually easier than doing the list.

The area where we'll put the beehive got started. We needed to smooth out the spot. All the brush from the cut trees you can see behind my husband was taken to the dump. Now my husband needs to go back with the chainsaw and cut the trunks into movable pieces. That was one thing on the list he didn't get to do. (And they really aren't in the way, so they are low on the list.)

And Maddie, besides wanting to be in the photo, was very excited for a patch of open dirt.

I finished bark mulching.  Hurrah. Check that off the list.

We bought screen to fix a few of the panels on the screen porch, but with the rain and winds we didn't get the plastic off of it yet. That was a partial check off. 

I did drag out my planting pots from inside the screen porch where we store everything over the winter. They look pretty sad being empty of plants. In another few weeks I'll get some green in them.

You can also see our very weathered deck under the pots. The original plan for this vacation was to put down new decking, but wow, has the price of construction materials sky rocketed. We decided to it wasn't any more expensive to get the weather resistant fake wood decking compared to pressure treated wood right now.  Some of the boards we needed would have been almost $45 a board if we bought new pressure treated wood. The edging boards would have been $60 for one board. We ordered the new weather resistant plastic decking but who knows when that will arrive. Another half check.

The hubby did bring his boat home. That was probably the only thing on his list. 

I was excited to see my kale has started to come up in my cold frame. And if you look carefully at the top of the photo you can see some lettuce popping up too.   I can check off that I got those seeds planted and they are growing.

It is amazing how much more green everything became in this past week.

My peonies grew about 6 inches out of the ground.

The rose plants are all getting their leaves.

More daffodils and hyacinths are blooming.

I moved the bird feeders further from the house to try to get the chipmunks and squirrels out of my veggie garden. Check that off. You can also see the slight touch of green on the trees as leaves just start to bloom.  

And I didn't get a photo, but the hummingbirds are back! I got my food made for them and that feeder put outside too.

This being T day, I wanted to share a drink and a meal from Pop's with you, like I mentioned last week. 

Here's the photo I posted last week. Opening May 1.

Saturday evening (which was May 1) we went over to get some dinner. When we got there the parking lot was empty and the building was dark. The sign was still hanging but the May 1 was painted over.

I'm not sure you can read the new sign which was slightly blown inward, but it said they were now opening May 8.

That was disappointing. So my link this week for T is going have to be all the Coca-cola signs on Pop's building.  I guess the ICE on the ice freezer would work also.

Be sure to stop by Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog  and join us for T with your drink related post.

Hopefully next week (weather dependent) I can share a drink related post from Pop's.  If not, I will find something more exciting to share.

Have a great T day. Thanks for visiting my blog also.