The week of April 10th - 16. Summary at Rosewold.

#1 ◱ Iris plants are budding.

#2 ◱ Isaac is helping build bookcases.

#3 ◱ Isaac is helping build bookcases.

#4 ◱ Don is pruning an apple tree so we can walk under it.

#5 ◱ We decided to get a load of compose potting soil which saved us over $1,000 compared to buying it in bags at Walmart.

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#7 ◱ Now Lois can pot all the plants she wants

#8 ◱ Lois bought some interesting bushes. Gooseberry, Honeyberry, and Black Currant. We already have Red current bushes.

#9 ◱ Now the pots have been filled with soil mix and bulbs and flowers planted.

#10 ◱ Some of the Crocosmia will go into pots and some into the ground. The Daylilies will go into the ground.

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#12 ◱ Lois is resting after potting plants.

#13 ◱ It is so fun to sit and watch the birds and Rosewold and dream about the future.

#14 ◱ Joseph found some playground slides for free from a friend. It will be great to see the playground expand. Daniel also bought new parts and had them shipped to Rosewold.

#15 ◱ Don is wearing his new leather apron while he makes more book shelves.

#16 ◱ Don looks really great and stylish.

#17 ◱ The area between the containers is a great place to work.

#18 ◱ Don is prepping a wall in the Red Shed to create a wall of tools for Lois. Then he can have his storage room not have the "Yard and Garden" tools and supplies in it.

#19 ◱ We nailed up plywood that we had so we can hang the tools on it.

#20 ◱ And we cleaned the Red Shed some more. Larissa and Stacia cleaned it earlier in the year, so it's looking better and better. Don and Lois got the "Gardening Shelf" in place.

#21 ◱ Lois was hoping to use the pallets and plywood to make a platform at the back half of the Red Shed, but they are too rotten. So now we have plan B, but haven't started it yet. She wants to make a Glamping Location.

#22 ◱ Here are some of the Gerbera that Lois planted.

#23 ◱ Saturday was dump day. We had a load of metal, but one pipe hung too far out the back. So Don just bent it in half. Lois was very impressed.

#24 ◱ It was hard work.

#25 ◱ Thanks to Joseph, Betsie got some new bling. Joseph hand made a chain so that we can attach the key and not loose it and so it is flexible enough to use. Last year we had two electrical ties. One broke. This is MUCH better.

#26 ◱ Not having enough kitchen cupboards we used book cases to make a pantry. It is really easy to see what food we have. :-)

#27 ◱ The Garden shelf is done and getting populated.

#28 ◱ Don bought another book case and made more shelves out of all the parts.

#29 ◱ Lois and Kekoa helped move log disks into a circle around a rose bush. That was a lot of heavy work.

#30 ◱ The lilacs are blooming and smell nice.

#31 ◱ The strawberries are in bloom. Will they survive the deer?

#32 ◱ Lois decided to plant some tomatoes and one kale plant where she had weeded. She knows that they may die with frost, but it's a gamble she's willing to take.

#33 ◱ The asparagus keeps popping up, but they are hard to find amongst all the weeds. Will that gardener please get busy and get it cleaned out?

#34 ◱ The Asian Pear has little fruits on it now. Just wait till the deer find them.

#35 ◱ Satsuma Plum blooms

#36 ◱ More Asian Pears.

#37 ◱ This may not look that amazing to you, but it means hours of work and a lot of hard labor to us. The area is so much cleaner now. Eventually the logs will surround the Elm tree and brown shed and maybe even have some dirt and flowers to make it look beautiful.

#38 ◱ Don was so excited about making new shelves out of another book case we bought. It was the cheapest way to buy the wood. So we added more shelves.

#39 ◱ The three white pieces are what he has left over of the new book case. :-)

#40 ◱ And Lois finally got tired of not being able to hear people, or have people hear her, or not having her old phone call someone at all..... and got a new phone. Moto G.