Bird Serenade

Friday was a very stressful day.  After the long drive on Thursday to find out that we might not close Friday morning was more stress producing.  In the end it all worked out.  It was only logical and straight forward, the front lawn could not be left half sodded.  My daughter informed the selling agent that we expected that the sod would be laid.  She spoke to the builder and the whole yard was done.  When we are here permenently  we will have a well dug for watering.  Stanley has already been back in the woods finding maple seedlings.  He already has a landscape plan for the backyard.  Because of the gentle slope towards the woods he thinks he will terrace the back with railroad ties.  We shall see.  I was amazed to realize there is no recycling program for our county.  I think I will get that going for my little neighborhood after we move.

We are so happy we had the back porch built.  The bird serenade is so wonderful.  Mr and Mrs Cardinal were are first guests even though they Chirp Chirp….I love to see them.  I am going to bring a bird book I have when we next come up to identify some of these colorful visitors.  The song fest starts early and ends late….even though I don’t recognize the tune!  It is very enjoyable..

I had a lovely Mother’s day yesterday.  My daughter and grandchildren took us to dinner in Columbia and I got a wonderful wicker rocker for the porch.  My daughter said she remembered how I would recall my happy memories of rocking with my Grandma. Singing and rocking.  We are going to Ft Jackson today, about a hop and a skip down the road to speak to a nurse recruitor who I have been corresponding with.  Tomorrow we are going to N.R. Goodale State Park for a walk about.  It is small but we just want to get out a bit.  We have a lot of housekeeping to do with hanging plantation blinds and such…We have all our appliances except a refrigerator so we have been using our big cooler in the garage.  We are going to a wonderful nursery called Woodseys or something like that and buy 2 magnolias for the front yard.  Fortunately, they will get trickle irrigation from the system we have set up because newly planted trees need a lot of care when they are first put in.

Hope everyone has a good day…..I am….