A clear morning and 10F - we go to Phyllis' farm this morning to work sheep and I'll need to have my Carharts and muckboots on- not a pretty picture, I can assure you! Solo had a good training session yesterday; I hope to enter him in an AKC obedience trial in January in El Paso, TX so we are working on those exercises as well as his french ring work.

The garden catalogs have begun to arrive; general vegetable catalogs, tomato specific catalogs and, a first this year, a snap bean catalog. Who knew?? I have dragged out some paper to begin to design a new garden on the south side of the house, the older I become, the less I enjoy mowing grass. We have ostrich ferns working to take over the entire back yard and that may be the ultimate decision. We also plan to paint the house next summer; I've been given carte blanche to take photos of interesting color combinations on other folks' houses as I suggested that it would be fun to have a house color other than white!

I need to put the bee hive away; it was not a huge success what with a weak colony to start, and a cold and wet spring. I rationalize by thinking that at least we helped with pollination and will try again next year.