Three perfect weekends

Tidy and ready for summer

Oh gee, so sorry to hear about your bad weather back east :-) We've had three nice weekends in a row, and so far April has been nothing like the soggy, cold, miserable one last year. We're finally dryer and warmer than usual, and today the temperature might reach 70 again, the first time we've had back-to-back warm days in seven months.  Which gives reason to believe the weather Oracles are correct, and La Nina finally met a miserable end out in the Pacific Ocean.

We didn't stray far from home and got plenty done outside.  John mowed, I weeded and spiffed up the bonsai collection.  Nothing exciting-- just good, light work and simple pleasures.

Hen and Chickens
The "Hen" is in the' garden,
And the "Chickens" are there, too;
They've traveled far to get here,
Across the ocean blue.

Of course, they do no scratching,
The reason is they can't;
They're not like other chickens,
For they are just a plant.
-JOHN CARROLL