Monday at the Nagle

Weather has improved...sunny and warm. The herbs are coming up nicely in the garden so we can start using those in the kitchen. Bulbs, bergenia, vinca and hellebores are blooming. Trees are ready to pop. Time to transplant some perennials this week. Cant wait for more flowers.

Heading out with a friend to do some hunting and gathering at the flea markets this afternoon. That will be a good time. It's one of those good relationships where we have lots of laughs per minute.

I read in "themes" and I always have several books going at the same time. Books are located everywhere so I can pick one up if I get caught waiting for something...then of course there is the bedside book. I have reached the age where I have to place a pair of reading glasses in each of those spots too! Am currently reading several books on women who were living in the west just as it was developing. One is the first woman governor in the U.S.; one is diaries and memories of women who moved west to the mining camps and homesteads; one is more general -- about women's inpact on the development of food and food preparation methods; and one is letters and diaries of a Wellesley-educated schoolmarm who taught in the area near Muddy Creek, Wyoming during the early 1900s.

I have a large floral project due later this month and need to start working on that tomorrow. Attaching a photo of one I used with our baby shower tea setup recently.