T Stands for Garden Time and More

 Hi everyone. Happy Tuesday. 

This past week I have been busy with lots of work around my gardens and yard. I was getting a little crazy about accomplishing it also, and that was stressing me out. I had plants to put into pots and into the ground, seeds to plant, my screen porch to clean and set up, an electric fence to figure out for the beehive...

Thankfully last Tuesday morning my walking friend sent me a  text and asked if I wanted to walk that afternoon at the Urban Forestry Center. At first I thought I should just say I couldn't make it, but then I rethought that idea. Funny how sometimes you need someone to throw you off track to put you back on track. I think my brain was still running automatically on work time, and with our now summer like weather, it was telling me that I have limited time to get these things accomplished. 

And that is not true.  What I don't get done one day I can do another day.

Hopefully by next spring I will have made it through that first year of adjustment and my brain won't have to be reminded about time.

Here's a pretty view from out walk. I've shown you this before, but not with everything green. I think later this week, depending on when the bees arrive, I might get back to Bedrock Gardens to see the rhododendrons.

And I have managed to get my work done. Why did I stress about it?

Here's a few photos of all my work last week.

This first one was taken as I was putting in the veggie garden.

Time to thin my lettuce and kale in the cold frame. Spinach is about ready to pick and eat, as baby spinach is so tasty.

These are just a few of the many pots I planted  with some herbs and annuals.

It also took parts of 3 days to finish this next project, but the plastic came off the screen porch, all the yard paraphernalia got taken out, and then I cleaned it up. After that I set it up.  I moved around a lot of the furniture this year and am fairly happy with the result. The white Adirondack chair you can see in the photo could be moved outside, but it is a good place to sit and talk on the phone.

I just love my hammock. Especially in the later afternoon with a book.

I pulled out my old trunk from the basement this year. I bought this when I was a senior in high school and took it off to college with me. I got it cheap, and it needed a lot of repair then. It could use some more work now, fresh paint, and maybe finally getting leather straps on it. (But it is not high on the list.)

We've been working on getting the electric fence around the beehive. It is done, hurrah! We haven't turned it on yet though. Now we're waiting for the bees. The bees should ship this week, but I'm not sure exactly what day they go out or arrive.

And after all that work, the hubby and I went out for Sunday lunch. It was nice to be taken out for lunch by the hubby.

When we went to lunch last Sunday there was no line at Pop's.  On opening weekend however, there was a line.  (This and the next 2 photos were back on May 8 that I never got around to showing you.)

As we were standing in line on opening day, a worker came out and covered over everything that had already sold out. That day I ended up with fried clams (still one of my favorites) instead of a lobster roll.

This past weekend I had my lobster roll. I substituted onion rings for the fries. They came in a paper bag, and I shared some with my husband.

The grease on the bags looks pretty disgusting, but the food tasted oh so good.

This is why my  sandwich carton doesn't have many onion rings in it. I just put a few out and then took a few more and continued that until I had my fill.

This was the one of the best lobster rolls I've ever had, even better than usual. Maybe because it was my first of the season. Not the cheapest sandwich on the menu, but Pop's aren't over priced. Plus it supports our local New Hampshire and probably Maine also lobster industry. And most importantly, is a favorite of mine. 

We picniced in the car, watching boats on the the Big Lake (Lake Winnepesaukee) which is right across the street from Pop's.  

.Here's my drink which I brought from home, and my ticket to T over at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog

Hope everyone has a wonderful T day and week ahead.

Thanks for visiting.