T Stands for Spring Excitement (well only if you like gardening)

 Hi everyone. And hello to all the folks who stop by Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog for T day.

     Last week wasn't the most exciting week for me as I was finishing up a few projects which really meant reorganizing and cleaning up a few messes around the house. I'm happy I got them all completed, but I'm sure you don't want to read about them.  😏 I had some garden time too. Everything is getting green  which is very exciting. 

    It's amazing how between morning and evening leaves have popped out more, and the gardens have filled in more. I actually even need to do some dreaded weeding.

     I really had hoped to get this wall painted. This is one side of my  husband's workshop, a structure that was on the property when we bought it.  The garden has grown up so much I'm afraid I'll squish plants if I put a ladder in there right now, so I guess painting it will have to wait until late summer or fall. (I'm not holding my breath my husband will get his shop cleaned up by then however-😬)

     What's also exciting is that we opened up the screen porch this past weekend. Some of you who stop by frequently might know how much I love my screen porch.

     This year I washed all the doors before my husband put them up. That took a while, and I was pretty wet by the time I finished. 

     The 3 screened walls of my  porch are made by using screen doors. In the fall my husband puts up plastic, we put all the yard paraphernalia into the area, and then he puts plastic over the doors and closes it up until spring. 

      Yes, my porch is still a mess. Mostly what's pushed up against the wall is my porch furniture. Cleaning the porch will be one of this week's projects. I want to repaint the floor here also, but I'm going to wait for the weather to (hopefully) dry out a bit before I tackle that project.

     All this work means I need to relax a bit too.  You might remember last Mother's Day weekend I went to Charleston, South Carolina with a friend. We visited the Bigelow Tea Garden, which is the only large scale tea plantation in the United States. During that visit we were told that the first cut of tea leaves for the year made the most delicate black tea. I tried some last year, and I had to agree. A couple of weeks ago  I received an email  that I could pre-order some of this year's first cut tea. I ordered myself a bag. It arrived at the end of last week, and you can see, I was about to make myself an evening cup of tea. 

That's all for me this T day. I hope you have great T day and week ahead.