Weather dependent activities

Living in this part of the world, you learn that all outdoor construction is "weather dependent." What that means is: when there is weather, there will be no construction. So, we lost a couple of days to storms...

I had just watered the blueberry bushes when this storm came in.

But by Friday, the roofers had managed to complete the second of the two chimneys and replace one of the skylights.

If you look closely, you can see one of the new chimneys stealing a peek of the budding grape vines.

This seems to have been effective in stopping the leaking, but there wasn't enough rain to really tell. They will have to go back to the skylight and do something because it shakes and rattles in the wind, which we do not believe it is supposed to do. Frankly, I don't care what it is supposed to do because it kept me up half the night last night. The Cat was so freaked out that she slept on my head most of the night. Two steps forward....

The 41 mph wind gusts also knocked all of the petals off of our tulips.

As you can see, no petals. We put the flags there to help us locate the tulip bulbs at the end of the season. We plan to transplant the tulips so that this space can be used for vegetables.

So, there were no Mother's Day flowers to send to the family via text. Sorry guys.

However, I can happily report that the blueberry bushes have been planted.

The red arrows are pointing to the blueberry bushes. Please memorize their shape and position. There will be a test later.

Yesterday, it rained cats and dogs throughout the morning. But we managed to get out during a break in the afternoon to purchase the materials for the next phase of the garden remodeling.

This is lavender. We plan to put these in two different spots to see how they do.

The brick in the middle came from the chimneys that were just demolished. This is only 2/3 of the red stones you see on the right that we've bought for the new hardscape design.

In other news, The Cat seems to have developed new habits. For one, she seems to be turning into a lap cat. Of course, she still has many of the same old habits. For example, she just prevented The Good Mr. Dr. from sitting in the reading chair.

That's all from here for now. I hope all the mothers and the mothers-to-be are having a good day.