Today the weather is awesome!!

It was so nice to eat breakfast on the screened porch this morning! The temp right now is 74 degrees and wonderfully sunny! Our realtor came over and we had iced tea on the back porch while we talked to her and it was heavenly!! She didn't have any more news about our house selling but she is trying. We are going to have 1 more Open House, I think on the 22nd and a Realtor's Luncheon will be schedule for April. We are hoping the scheduling won't be necessary and we'll have a buyer by then! All the little birds are flitting around the trees today singing their happy little songs-it is like listening to a natural symphony to me!! The bluebirds have been coming in the yard and they are so pretty along with the cardinals. More of my plants are waking up from Winter too! I checked the hosta I have in the huge garden pot and the little green "horns" are starting to sprout up! I potted that hosta up last year anticipating a move so I can take it with me. It is a gorgeous one and I didn't want to leave it. Some of these plants in the garden are like children to me! I know crazy but I'm wild about hostas and almost every plant out there! I have 2 plants that will be coming with me too that my Grandmother had given to me when I was a little girl and I'll be 50 in July! Well I'm headed outside again to read and rest up. Feeling much better today but don't want to have a relapse from this terrible sinus infection. Everyone get outside and enjoy the warmth!!

I'm feeling better, here are some pics I took today!

Today I came home from work sick. I slept most of the day and then got some fresh air in the backyard. I took some pictures because the sun was hitting everything just right. I thought I would share!


Remember in the beginning of the week the pond on the golf course overflowed into the woods behind my house, well here is the woods today. The water absorbed and the pond went back to the normal levels. I like it this way better!


This little chickadee bird house is in the maple tree in my garden. I've seen little chickadees flitting around this little home and now they are taken moss, dog hair and little twigs in there! YAY!


The sun hit the magnolia leaves on my tree in the backyard and I thought they looked so pretty.


This is a Lenten Rose which is growing in my woodland border.



This lovely daffodil is blooming in my yard. I love this double one!


Teddy was playing in the yard this afternoon but I caught him while he was resting.


I noticed when I walked into the sun room today this lovely fragrance. It brought back when I was a little girl and would visit my grandmother after she just put orange blossom perfume on right before I visited her! This is my lemon tree (the fragrance is just like the orange blossom perfume).


Here are the blossoms that are on the lemon tree. There are about 5 clusters of blossoms. I hope the lemons start forming soon.





These are the lovely gifts I received from Heidi http://foxglovesfabricandfolly.blogspot.com/
Thank you so much Heidi!!!

I am sick today-blah!

I got up and went to work today. On the way I started not feeling good. I could feel a sinus headache creeping up the back of my neck and taking over my entire head! I got to work at 7:45 and really started feeling sick. I left work at 8:35 just couldn't do it. I came home and slept until about noon and I've eaten a little something and I'm headed back to sleep. Hopefully tomorrow I'll feel better and I'll be able to enjoy this warm weather!

It's getting warmer and the sun is shining!

Good morning everyone! The sun is shining so brightly today and it is 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. Saturday it is suppose to be 78 degrees-woohoo!! I am so ready for Spring! Just seeing the sun today makes everything just look better and it makes everyone feel better. So today try and soak up some rays and feel happy!

Snow in Charlotte three times in one year!!

The weather in this country has been very strange and Charlotte, NC has not been left out! We had rain all day Friday and Saturday and then last night it started snowing and we got 4"! The picture above is a picture of a tree that has just gotten so bogged down from this very wet snow. It is beautiful to look at but dangerous for electrical wires, trees/limbs falling on cars, homes, etc. I went into work an hour later than normal today due to the icy roads. It definitely paid off because the sun had started to melt the ice and I had no problems.

I really wish Spring would do just that "spring" into action!! Do you hear that Mother Nature!!

Here is more of the "Lion" beginning of March!

I opened the door to the back screened porch and this is what I saw this morning! We own a little bit of the woods, the Country Club owns the rest of the woods to the 3rd hole on their golf course. The golf course has a pond on it and that overflowed its banks and cascaded into the woods. We have never had the water come into our yard but it came close one time when they were working on the golf course. They had dammed up the pond and it rained for 2 days, the water overflowed the dam they had made, came into the woods and up to our sod in the backyard! We have flood insurance just in case something happens. Thank goodness we have never had to use it!



The flooding from the pond on the golf course has also cascaded into our neighbors yard. They actually have more flooding than we do.



This is the view of our backyard from the landing on the second story. You can see the flooding in the yard.



The rain has blown so hard and it pelted all these lovely little raindrops all over my clean windows! The realtor suggested I clean all the windows, even though they weren't dirty. She said people love sparkling windows. I had told her the rains hadn't come through yet and she said to do it anyway! Well I wish I had waited. I have 42 windows in my house and it takes me forever to clean all of them! Oh well!

Lion or Lamb?

When I was a little girl my grandmother used to say, "Sherri, we will have to see who beats who for the 1st day of March, the Lion or the Lamb". At first I had no idea what Grandma was saying because I was only 4 years old (atleast I think I was). Then as I got older I understood and we would write on the calendar together whether March started as a Lion or a Lamb. When Megan and Jenny were born I started the same thing with them, which pleased my grandmother to no end! Such a simple thing, but she said it was more than that it was tradition. My Grandma is no longer with us, but this morning when I got up to take Teddy out I said outloud to her, "Grandma it is definitely a Lion ushering March in this year". Teddy started when I opened the door because we were both almost flattened by the forceful wind that rushed into the house! He hurriedly did his busy and bolted into the house like the wind was chasing him! Right now, as I type he is pacing around the house, not even eating his food because the trees are swaying outside and the wind is howling! We also had thunder and lighting earlier this morning that woke me up, so actually the Lion showed itself much earlier. I wonder when my girls wake up this morning in their own homes if they will think of the Lion or Lamb, I'm sure they will. Hopefully the tradition will continue when they have children as it did in our household and in my Grandma's household! In your part of the country did March come in as a Lion or a Lamb? Have a wonderful day!! Oh and Grandma, yes I marked the calendar!