First off, such a tragedy for any of you who follow horse racing. Eight Belles was put down after breaking both ankles after passing the finish line in 2nd. Poor girl. She ran a heck of a race. I love horse racing, but the recent highly publicized breakdowns just sheds so much light on the evils of it all.

Well otherwise I have just been keeping busy in the gardens this week. I have been learning about making stones and such from concrete as well as mosaics. So I think that is a new craft I will be taking up. I almost have the shade garden finished. Now it will be moving on to eradicating campion, nettles, and garlic mustard around the property. Next weekend the BIL is dozing down the old barn. iwill be using a considerable amount of the rocks to edge beds so I have a lot of work ahead! It's also mowing and edging time! Goodness, so much to keep occupied with when you are underemployed.

Speaking of which, I started at Gander Mtn earlier this week and that went well. Seem like nice people. Odd not being the one in charge though. not sure how I feel about that!!

Been trying out garden software and have settled on one I think. Garden PLanner seems like it will work fine. Very easy to use. I had tries some 3d ones, but they just didn't work well on my puter, or were really complicated and involved lots of downloads. My puter is old and doesn't have much memory so I try to limit what I download. Hopefully this will work with the site, and I can get that up and running. I know I've been ignoring it a bit.

Well I guess that is about up to speed on what I've bneen doing. Soon as I get caught up on stuff I will return to gaving some articles on the hort industry as well as gardening. l8r!