2002
*planted 3 Oriental Hybrid lilies 'Sierra Nevada' in front of Mother's peony - bought from Walmart sale rack - white lilies with yellow throats - marked with blue golf tees
*weather: overcast in morning, sunshine in afternoon, cool & windy
*coming up: one hill okra, several hills cucumbers, one hill green beans

1998
* in bloom: peony

1995
*planted green beans

2008
rain: 1/2"

2002
*set out Festival Maxima Peony at southwest exterior corner of pool fence - root from Walmart sale rack
*transplanted mallow & angel's trumpet from burn pile to provide cover while peony grows
*planted 25 'Fidelio' gladioli - bought from Walmart sale rack - brilliant pink - planted on west side of Mother's peony, intermingled with irises, at south end of daylilies & at SW corner of pool fence in groups of 5 or more - marked with white golf tees
*weather: threatening rain
*adopted black & white long-hair 7 week old kitten from family outside Elkins; Skye & Love named her "Cookie"; her mother is a Siamese mix named Taco & her father is a Sylvester-cat named "Oreo."

2000
*dumped pool water
*newly in bloom: mallow

1999

* 2" rain

1997
*frost
*in bloom: Mother's peony

1994
*planted 1/2 row Kandy corn
*set out 6 habenero pepper plants & 6 cayenne pepper plants

2008
rain: 1/2"

2002
*set out tiger lily from Mom's
*9/10" rain

2000
*made bed under butterfly bush at SE corner of pool fence
*opened pool
*newly in bloom: purple coneflower

1999
*set out 2 banana peppers, 3 jalapenoes, & 2 bell peppers

1999
*set out second blueberry bush - Blue Ray - second from south [in east row].
*planted tulip bulbs from red potted tulips Love gave me - along east fence outside pool area
*planted 30 Brodiaea corms (Queen Fabiola) from Wal-Mart - along north and east fence outside pool area
*discovered astilbe is alive - I thought it died last summer.
*newly in bloom: yellow tulips & grape hycinth
*bought metal swing set for Skye - purple!

1995
*set out raspberries from Wisty
*set out 26 Surecrop strawberry plants from Ames