Ginger wondering where her pantry went to....OMG where will she find her treats?
Can't find anyone strong enough to hoist the 5000lb oven into place. Sure hope the oven fairies show up.

The ceramic tile goes into the back hall and the laundry room. I made the guys move the tile layout so that a full tile was  in the centre of the doorway. Not happy campers.

a picture of the garden

Here it is. Not much to look at today. I got tired of digging holes so I quit and took pictures. The apple tree is in and the rose. I put the rose behind the apple tree in the righthand corner, and I think it will bush up quite nicely and provide a pretty backdrop for the tree with colourful annuals in front. The wigela is next and then the flowering almond. I hope this garden fills in quickly. I hid most of the hideous pee spots from the camera lens. I have a seed mixture on them and I hope the wind doesn't blow them away. Yesterday workmen were digging holes and pulling the back wall up and bracing it with heavy rods. It kinda slumped after the frost heaved. The garden looked like a bomb site and my spinach got mushed. Not that anyone could tell that it was spinach. Just the first two little leaves.

The back yard is taking shape

I slipped over to Costco on the ruse of buying deodorant but I found myself in the garden centre hauling huge wigelia plants overhead and yet another clematis,this one is Polish Spirit. I bought two different kinds of strawberry plants and I will hopefully not lose the tags, so that when someone says 'My this is a delicious sweet red berry, what variety?" I can reply with the true name.
I bought a standard Japanese willow. Such a sweet delicate plant, I grew it to an enormous size in my other house and alas the next owners killed it dead. This one I bought today has to endure the howling winds down the fairway and the rabbits. I have given it quite an assignment.
A Morden rose, that I can stuff into the back of the bed to give shelter to the new little Parkland apple and a already flowering double plum.
Hmmm what else. Lots of annuals of course. I get the ones in baskets and try not to kill them before I put them into the ground. Yes, I put them in the ground, that way the underground sprinkler system will take over nanny duty.
it will soon be picture time.

Now it begins

The invisible work has been done. Workers have been here almost everyday laying floors and preparing the walls, installing electrical and plumbing rough in.
Today the drywall arrived and the carpenter began storing the cabinet boxes in the garage in preparation for their installation. I am told that things will go quickly now.
Ha, pull the other one.
We have been in our little basement suite for 6 weeks now.
I am not going to take any pictures until the scenery changes. When the tile floor goes in or the ceiling goes up.

The last few days have been windy windy and chilly. Tonight is a full moon. Everybody including the dog is feeling rattled. Must be the energy shifts.

The daffodils are blooming, the apple tree is blooming, the flowering plum is flowering. My plant baskets have been doing lots of miles, in and out. I am never really sure of the weather here. There is a rule in this city, not to plant before May 29th. I have extended that to June 2nd.
If we survive a frost we will be just in time for hail season. Then we run around with sheets to cover up the plants.
If we manage to avoid getting pounded to green mush then its off to mosquito season.
Did you notice I didn't mention a rainy season? We live in the high desert...enough said.
So after all that it is winter again.
I gotta wonder why I live here.
Oh yeah, its the huge blue sky, the mountains, the beautiful green foothills, our family and friends, the oil industry which feeds our economy...yeah its all of that.