"Safeguard and Improve Your Environment" is one of the precepts from The Way to Happiness and while I'm great at safeguarding my yard, it needed some improvement in the area of upkeep. A winter windstorm blew down some of the fence latticework that we replaced but it was too cold to paint. I just got around to it this week and once I get started painting I keep going. It was a beautiful day in the 70's, clear blue skies and I had lots of avian company. After a while in the sun, the shade of the lilacs provided some nice relief.
Yesterday we went to the city's free mulch yard and picked up a couple of barrelfulls. I also got some soaker hoses for the newly dug garden area along the fence and some extra hose for the new cistern. Things are coming along.
