T Stands for In The Yard (Mostly) This Early Spring

    Hi everyone. Happy new week to you. And hello to everyone who stops by for T from Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog.

   Last week we had a stretch of some cold weather along with some wind. One day it was cold enough for winter jackets. 😒 Besides a couple of walks and getting together with a friend one afternoon, I spent much of my week working outside in the yard. I wanted/want to get some things finished before the black flies come out and drive me back into the house. 😬

     I know spring in my area arrives slower than many people's. There's no leaves on the trees yet. But I do finally have quite a few spring blooms like a few small hyacinths.

    And lots of daffodils. 

 This morning (Monday) I finished my big spring raking projects. I had hoped to finish this up sooner, but with all the wind last week, it would have been a losing proposition to even try to clean up the leaves. 🍃

    I'm enjoying a neat almost empty flower garden because it won't be long until it's full of returning perennials. 

   Elsewhere in the yard both of my rhubarb plants have popped up.

   My lawn also needs some TLC. This year I'm filling in some of the bare spots with some lawn clover.  I've been putting it down in small batches, 

 and you can see my early batches have started to sprout.

   Some onions that didn't sprout by last fall and were left in the ground have sprouted too.

   I also planted some early season seeds. I have kale, arugula rocket and some garden peas. They are all coming up. 😏

    My other latest project is doing a bit of bark mulching. Only a couple of gardens, the ones right along the house,  get mulched. This is my rose garden, and every day the little tiny leaf buds and now little tiny leaves are getting bigger.

    One of the best signs all year is when the green house down the road announces their opening day.

    My husband has also been busy putting up a new deck railing on the back deck. 

    He's not done yet because he ran out of the clips you need for construction. He ordered some and they should be here this week. He's got it half done, so hopefully next weekend the weather will cooperate and he'll get it finished.

If you look carefully at the hole of my bluebird house, you can just make out Mama's head. 

 And I need a drink for tea. The other morning my husband and I went out to run a few errands; he needed some screws, and I needed the bark mulch. When I got home it was going to be bark mulch spreading time, so to keep me from getting hungry during the job, I took the hubby out for a late breakfast/early lunch first.  We stopped at our local favorite hole in the wall breakfast and lunch place. You can see our diet Pepsi's . 

   I had a cheese omelet, some baked beans and a grilled English muffin that tasted great but looked like pancakes. 

  I still have a few more yard chores to get done before the rain arrives later in the week. We need rain though. The weather people on the news keep telling us we're still in a drought from last summer.   It doesn't seem possible with the snow we had this winter, but since it is pretty dry,   lets hope the forecast for rain actually produces rain  and not just light drops and lots of grey skies.

   Sorry for the long post. Have a super T day and week ahead.