melita's rose

since ryan says i never let him buy me roses, he bought me a rose bush! he bought me a jackson & perkins "cherries & cream." today was the first day that it was starting to open up. it smells divine! i love roses (they are one of my favorite flowers but they are just too darn expensive sometimes).

isn't she gorgeous?!

photos by moi

gardening

the past few days we have been working on our little side garden. it started out as a strawberry patch but of course we couldn't stop there. we planted our snow peas there, lemon balm, lavender, and more pansies. it is also the home for one of ryan's bonsai trees during the warmer days.

lavender on the left and lemon balm on the right
sorry for the glow around the little white fence, dunno why it is doing that

lemon balm and strawberries

some delicious strawberries calling my name :)

ryan's first bonsai (surrounded by more strawberry plants) that i got him when we first started dating
(that puts the bonsai around 12-13 years old)

we had planned on doing some gardening today but it rained pretty much all day. hopefully tomorrow we can get it done.

photos by moi

pansy love

i love the pop of color that pansies give. here are the ones we have this year:

my rather sucky week in review

hello all. sorry i haven't been keeping up with my posts regularly. i had a pretty tough week. here is how it goes from last weekend to now:

went to dc last weekend, had a fantastic time (will post about this soon) except for my boyfriend being so sick sunday he wasn't able to leave the hotel.

sunday night after we got home on sunday, my belly started cramping and i knew what was coming, the same think my boyfriend had, nasty stomach virus.

spend sunday night/monday morning in the bathroom and laying in the bathroom floor and hall in horrible pain.

spent monday, tuesday, and wednesday in bed (and bathroom still, ugh).

thursday - finally made it to work, was told i was laid off, effectively immediately!!

thursday night/friday morning - didn't sleep much due to too many thoughts running through my head about being laid off.

friday - trying to keep my spirits up, worked around the house and garden, getting ready for spring. also helped meredith, an older lady i help at least once a month with her bills, check book, etc.

saturday - was able to sleep in a little longer than friday morning. did more gardening, planted pansies and violas around our strawberry patch and planted some seeds.

today - catching up on reading blogs, hopefully doing a little blogging of my own, and who knows, probably some more gardening as i didn't get all of my pansies planted yesterday.