Random ramblings

It's off to my doctor this afternoon for a follow up on the bronchitis. While I feel much better, the cough lingers (my understanding is that it may take two weeks to disipate) and my energy level is still subpar, in spite of four days' worth of couch naps and bad t.v.

I'd really like to get better; I've already missed several fun things that were on the calendar for this past weekend. I've invited a friend over for dinner on Friday and would dearly love not to infect her as I show her hospitality. On top of all this, the weather is unseasonably gorgeous (highs no lower than sixty all week, with the weekend topping seventy (as will tomorrow, but with massive thunderstorms)), stoking up the old spring fever.

Yes, me, the person who routinely kills house plants for lack of attention, is looking forward to playing in the dirt.  Three huge planters on the patio are crying out for ... something. The shepherd's hook the previous owners left in the garage space is screaming to be planted...somewhere. The hose is waiting be be hooked up...somehow. Still working on figuring that one out - they left feet upon feet of hose, but all of it is that old, stiff, extra heavy stuff. Rather than buy one of the expensive hose reel boxes, I'd rather get 25 feet of pre-coiled, light weight hose.

It's not as if I water all that often (see remark about killing houseplants).

According to the condo association, I can plant up to four feet out from the walls in the front bed. Said bed is currently full of bushes (that I can't take out)(and make it difficult to reach the water spigot, which is inconveniently behind the bushes halfway between the front door and the patio gate), but I can put something small and happy-making just in front of them, as an edging of sorts. I'm thinking portulaca, because the front walk is in full sun and I'm less likely to water out there than watering the urns on the patio. They thrive in dry conditions, and that little bit of color along the sidewalk would perk things up.

Off to see if I'll be well enough to putter this weekend...