Easter Eggs

So, today was the first day of being completely alone after Zach's departure to Kenya. After making my face tired and puffy yesterday, I went to bed early and got well rested. I had a final this morning, but it was short, and afterwards I went spring clothes shopping at Kohl's. We'd had to get Zach a suit there yesterday and spent quite a handful of change, so to save a hundred or so, we opened a Kohl's card, since it was save 30% to open it that day. I got to use that same discount today. I also ran some other errands and made it home by early afternoon. Then I went to coloring my Easter eggs I boiled last week. Here are some pictures of the good time I had:

While coloring these lovely ladies, I watched our mama squirrel feast on the squirrel feeder outside our kitchen window.

After that I went outdoors and mowed the lawn! I also trimmed bushes and trees...I typically get carried away with that kind of stuff. After trimming the trees, I made some decorations with some of the clippings.

I also bought some festive tulips at the grocery.

While I was working on the yard, my neighbor, Leslie, stopped by and gave me some wine! She's in wine and spirits, but is pregnant and cannot enjoy what she opens during the day for her clients at home, so she brought me a couple! We're co-block captains together, so we've been getting to know each other. It's so nice to find more friends!

Well, that was my day, in and out.

When the Universe bestows upon you a gift

Today was suppose to be spent at the pharmacy for ten long hours, while the nicest part of this beautiful day sailed past, but unexpectedly, I got a notice right before I was going to leave for work that I would have today off. What a gift. I was outside in my garden all morning, and came in just after noon. I'm watering the lawn now, and I am just enjoying this sunny afternoon. I transplanted my pumpkins, bell peppers, and tomatoes to bigger pots and sowed some seeds into a bed I made up. I sowed more carrots, radishes, some stevia, walking Egyptian onions, and baby lettuce. I then surrounded the beds with a fence of sticks...hoping to bar my dogs from trampling everything into the ground (fingers crossed).

Here from the left are tomato, pumpkin and bell pepper plants.

My budding dogwood

In the tall black pots are my first round of radishes I started inside. In the clay pots I have carrots starting to grow.

From the left I have baby lettuce, radishes, carrots, stevia, and Egyptian walking onions.

From here you can spot the eggplant, chamomile, cilantro, coneflower, and black eyed susans as well!

This is my survivor parsley, and some pansies and baby lettuce!