A Weekend Outside

After a frosty week, we had beautiful weather this weekend. All of our snow is gone except for a small pile behind the garage. Instead of doing the usual gardening reading/research the last two days, I was outside in the yard. Here are a few things I managed to accomplish.

• majority of the leaves were cleaned up
  
• emptied some planters that should have been emptied last fall. I have three terra cotta pots to mend. 
  
• compost pile tidied up
  
• crazy, wooden vine not yet identified was trimmed back and pulled out of the fence and gutters
  
• day lilies were cleaned up
  
• gardening tools cleaned and sharpened
  
• backyard measured out for landscaping map
  
• pruning date set with Miss A
  
• husks/roots of old wildflowers pulled from front bed
  
• tons of awesome seeds received from Mr. D

More later. Now I have to transfer my backyard measurements to my drawing program.