2019 April 6 Starting a new garden year

Well, it's a new year.  I will be traveling a lot and kind of hoping the Hemperlys stay at our house when we are away.

On April 1, I really gave the rose bushes in the front a huge pruning.  Um, I wonder if I should do that bush in the  back?

We have been clearing out leaves and pine needles for weeks.  Did more today on the 6th.  Tom worked on the sprinklers in the flower garden that the nasty squirrels had damaged. He plugged 30 holes. I hate squirrels and rabbits.

How I wish Tom would bring up changing our powder room bathroom.  Alex, Ellen, and Beau surprised Tom for his birthday so it was nice to have them around this weekend.  I got Tom this:

I have high hopes it scares the squirrels.  I think we need to move it around.  Although squirrels are stupid.  Rabbits are smarter.  Yesterday I was yelling at the squirrels and did not realize Paula was out there. oops.  So I told her about the holes in the sprinklers. She seemed sad for us and said she thought it was the raccoons as squirrels are dumb.  But she is the one who has fed them peanuts that were probably salty so they tried to get water from our sprinklers. 

My pickles are now too soggy to enjoy.  too bad.  they lasted about 3 months so now I have to eat them. Well, they are dill so not a lot of calories.

I need to get potting soil and some garden soil.  My plan is to plant the sugar snap peas, carrots and lettuce (spinach) when I am home for 4 days before we go to Europe. 

I put one of the dahlias in the basement, still in the soil in the green pot.  Beau pee-ed in it. We'll see what happens.