Please Don't Freeze!!!

Enough already!!! Please.... no more cold weather! I have planted (we have planted... thanks, Vera) way too many flowers for another cold spell to show it's little blue face. By the way, Vera is my aunt from Tulsa and she came up on Friday (as cold as it was) to help me plant a ton of flowers. My Uncle Wayne (better known as Uncle Weinie) was going to come up also but he got sick at the last minute and couldn't make it. Not sure which golf course he doctors at but one of them was calling his name.... and you guessed it, the golf course won!

This picture was one I had posted on a previous post and I just wanted to be sure everyone had seen it and knew what was going on with the front of this building. My husband had started a new flowerbed with timber we had removed from a friends portico.
Less than two weeks later the flower bed is almost done and a new section of fence has magically appeared to hide the propane tank , the electric meter, and all the stuff that doesn't need to be seen. Pretty handy guy isn't he?
I am enjoying spending some time in my gardens with my camera and this is such an unusual specimen that I thought I should just share it! For all you gardeners, you know this as an Allium bloom. This is my first time at planting it in my beds. When it's leaves first came up in my bed amidst the daffodils I thought the birds had carried in a corn seed. I was ready to get the shovel and dig it up..... and then, lo and behold up came this round pointy thing.
As you can see it is coming along rather nicely! Mother Nature is truly amazing, huh? Oh and just in case you are wondering the Kildeer parents are taking good care of the eggs. We had to build a cover over them during one of the recent storms just in case of hail but it didn't happen. I don't know how in the world all those other little birdies survive without someone to help them out.This is the mother-to-be and she is looking as fit as a fiddle. I have to give credit to her mate as he is spending a lot of time helping out around the nest. It has been a chore keeping the dog from discovering the treasures these to birds are sitting on.

I worked on Saturday at the greenhouse and had a good time but I probably brought home more than I made that day. Ha! Oh well, we are having a Garden Tour and we do need lots of nice Stuff in our Garden.

Today I decided I needed a day off and so I decided to go to the Tulsa Zoo. I had wanted to do this for some time and this seemed a good time as any. Took a bit to find someone who wanted to go but I finally ran across some takers.

Cute bunch of monkeys, huh? We headed out of town, hit McDonalds, and eventually found the zoo. I had to call someone to give me directions as it had been so long since I had been there.
Sorry for the poor picture quality but I haven't master ttg photography. Through the glass, that is. Maybe someday I will get that figured out. This little guy was just to cute to pass up.
I couldn't tell if this polar bear was really digging having his photo taken or not. You can be the judge of that!

I am not sure if he is howling, objecting, gargling, or just what is going on here. Maybe his girlfriend was just around the corner, who knows?

It sure doesn't take much to entertain kids, even though they all seem to have every toy known to man. Just send them outside with an old water pump....
or a nice lion water fountain and they will play forever.
You could even send them out to play in the yard with the turtles....
Or maybe send them to the pond to play with the turtles.....
or maybe on second thought.... not the pond!
I probably had more fun today than the kids did! I am sure glad I decided to just 'take the day off'. I talked to my grandma on the way to the zoo and she wasn't to sure that escorting three kids to the zoo was her idea of a 'day off'. Ha!
Bet this is a little more what grandma had in mind.... a nice little catnap. Speaking of which... bedtime is here, so until next time. Whenever that is?