Update.......

We have been busy enjoying the school holidays.......

The children have been busy playing on the farm and I have finished

all the pruning, edging and mulching. Every-thing

is looking bare yet still beautiful.This is the only area that I haven't touched as it is the rain forest

section of the garden......

Where we live is only 3 hours from the coast,i have been asked by

some of my readers if it is always warm here. We can

get cold winters but nothing like Suzun gets in the Rocky Mtns

when I read her blog in winter I know that I don't know what cold is.....

I do get frosts here, but not around the house, and this year I covered alot of

frost tender plants up.......The coldest it's been this year is 1 degree

and the days get to about 14 here. But most nights it doesn't get below 2 or 3 degrees.

I have done my pruning about a month earlier

than I normally do it....With the school holidays on I thought

that I should get it done, as who knows what next month will bring.

So hopefully I won't lose any-thing. I have moved 4 roses as they where

getting to much shade. I have planted

Pansy's,foxgloves and lots more, so hopefully

this spring my garden will be full of colour, so you won't miss all the

things I have pulled out...

Not much is happening in the vege garden, I have pulled the last of every-thing up

dug the beds all over and mulched them. I will leave them to rest

for a month before I plant any thing else...The wind is blowing right

through and everything is getting wind burnt. Next year

I will have to have the real vege garden up and going before winter,

as I am losing to much this year.

Greg is doing so much better he is up and walking with the

help of a walking stick, and he is looking so much

better. The doctor said that he is areal fighter with all he

has been through and yet he still continues to amaze them.

There is talk that he will be coming home late next week so I really

hope so......it is bad enough sitting up there, I couldn't

imagine being there full time for 5 1/2 weeks.
Now he can move a bit more he can get outside for awhile

and not stuck inside all the time.

I hope all the Mums with school age children are

enjoying the holidays as well...

Mandy