My birthday is just about here and I am celebrating a different way this year. But first, a walk through the gardens.
I love seeing all of the new growth, but with the good comes the bad and I found that all of my new privacy arborvitaes did not make it. I bought big (expensive) ones to get quicker privacy. We watered them all last Summer and they looked great into the Fall. It's just been in the last couple months that they circled the drain.
The Service Berries are flowering.
And the rhubarb I thought was dead is growing nicely.
There is lots of cleanup to do here but the New Dawn roses are covering the potting shed.
When I was planting this area, I went to nurseries and bought their unsold ferns late in the Fall. I got really good buys and planted hundreds of ferns. I love seeing them poking out of the ground each Spring.
My tulips have not bloomed yet.
There she goes.
Tour over!
It looks like it snowed on my lawn. These are the flower petals from my Fall Flowering Cherry.
My husband asked me what I wanted for my birthday this year. I told him steak. He said, great! I will take you out to dinner. I said no....I want steak and lots of it!!! So, tomorrow The Blog Tech and I will be serving the shelter grilled steaks, asparagus in browned butter, a baked potato bar with all the toppings, garlic bread (as you see above), salads with homemade ranch dressing and lots of homemade chocolate cake with vanilla icing. Lots of baking and cooking going on here today. I told the shelter that this was a celebration for all of the men's birthdays.
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Jan
Incidentally, tomorrow is Queen Elizabeth's birthday too but I doubt she'll be serving a delicious meal to people at a homeless shelter. Just goes to show, doesn't it?
You are one wonderful woman!
Happy Birthday
I really like Your garden and ferns are my favorites but hard to find here. Well, I've picked some in the forest here instead :-)
Have a great day and Happy Birth day!
Christer.
Cheers!
anyway, in one of the episodes a character tells the main character "to whom much is given...much is expected".
that sentence rings in my ears all of the time. i can never get it out of my head. i always try to live up to it because i have been given sooo very much.
i love it when i find places that that sentence quiets down. Joyce - to whom much is given, much is expected. it is sad to say that i haven't run into too many people in my life that live up to that sentence...but every time i come to your blog and you share a recipe, or a story about your family, or a story about your and your son's work at the shelter - that sentence is quieted in my mind.
you have thoroughly lived up to that quote "to whom much is given"...it makes me proud to know you on this interwebs!
your friend,
kymber
Hard to type through tears,
Happy birthday sweet lady, you are one in a million!
Wish I was close by to lend you a hand with your cooking shelter birthday feast - that is gonna be a lot of work. And bring a lot of joy!
Happy happy birthday to you.
Love Leanne
Leave it to you to top yourself.
A steak dinner for the shelter! You have WOW'd me once again.
May all manner of good things find you at every turn.
Leave it to you to top yourself.
A steak dinner for the shelter! You have WOW'd me once again.
May all manner of good things find you at every turn.
Those men in the shelter are so fortunate to have you in their lives!
When? So WHEN is your birthday exactly so I can scream and shout! :):) Today? Did I miss it? PLEASE don't make me miss it.