One of THOSE days

It's been a really long time since I had one of THOSE days that was this bad! It seemed like everything I tried to do in the morning ended up not working out. Quarterly payroll reports are going to be on a tight schedule thanks to the state not having their software for 2016 working yet. The program installs just fine, it just doesn't work. Which meant my plans for today went right down the drain and when I tried to go on to something else it didn't go well either and so on and so forth. So this afternoon Carol and I brainstormed on how to make sure that I'm not drowning in work next tax season. That was actually really profitable. Especially since I realized afterwards that that was what I was supposed to do for my mastermind group! And then we went on to get my pile of donation neatly put in boxes, then went on to the bedrooms down stairs and got a closet cleaned out and more donation, went to Christina's old room and almost completely got through her room and added some more donation! Although I'm wondering about a yard sale this year..... so maybe stick the stuff out and then donate what doesn't sale. Then went outside and finished an area that has desperately needed weeded for years. So although no money was billed today a lot still got done. With a day like today it's better to throw in the towel and only do what is absolutely necessary because a month from now I would have most likely been finding my errors.

The weather has been beyond awesome! I think I saw that this month we've had a record of 6 days over 80. That will most likely be it since the next week is pretty much rain. Yesterday we had one of the longest thunderstorms that I can remember. It stayed just to the east so although we didn't really get rain we had a really nice display of lightening and lots and lots of thunder. It just seemed to continuously roll. There's a lot of place that that is the norm but that doesn't happen very often here, especially not for close to two hours!

Thanks  to the weather the garden is doing awesome! Peas are up nicely as is the lettuce and swiss chard. Now we need the cooler weather so they can produce! As nice as it was, enough of having Summer in the Spring! Let's hope we don't of Spring in the Summer!!

Thunderstorm clouds

Just about in full bloom. It's officially two weeks ahead of schedule.

I love these old fashioned roses. They smell so yummy!

Even this rose is just about in full bloom. And it's not yet May!!

This is the area I cleaned out this evening. This was matted with grass. I dug down and got as many of the grass roots as I could and found several cocoons as well! What's left is bulbs. The planter bed to the back has the peas and lettuce and swiss chard. And there's some garlic clear to the right. Beautiful garlic plants this year! 

These Iris's have multiplied nicely!

In the middle of each batch of leaves is a hydrangea bloom. All the plants look like this this year. There's going to be a lot of gorgeous blooms this year!