Dr Copa Scrip for Success

It’s a good thing that it is finally raining today or all of the window boxes that I worked so hard to get ready for this year’s season wouldn’t stand a chance with this heatwave that we have been experiencing this Spring. They are all ready talking about putting water restrictions in place soon if we don’t get a lot more rain than what we have been getting so far.

These particular flower boxes are very special to the wife and I. They belonged to her grandmother who was known all over town for her green thumb and her beautiful windowboxes. It took several years to get these window boxes from her estate, what a tangled mess that whole thing turned out to be, but we finally have them and each year it is a pleasure to see them all flowing over with beautiful and colorful flowers in the carefully chosen window sills through out the house.

The windowbox seems to be making a come back as I am seeing more and more of them being used around town. Spring is my favorite time of year and as the old saying goes “April flowers bring May flowers” so bring on the rain!!!

We really have lucked out this winter, only a few inches of snow as of yet and it is almost February for heaven’s sake. I can only hope that we don’t end up paying out the nose for this blessing by having some crazy winter storm come and make up for all the lost time. I’m getting anxious for spring and summer to get here, I’ve never been a big fan of cold weather and I have a lot plans for the yard that I’m getting ready for.

I’ve been checking out some online flowers and getting some really good ideas from various Gardening sites. It amazing how many varieties of plants, flowers, shrubs, tree and bushes there is out there for people’s landscaping concepts. I’ve never been the best at making choices, but I’m taking my time, showing my ideas around and getting good feedback so far. I’m really looking forward to getting outside and getting my hands dirty instead of freezing cold as they have for many months now.

I saw a cool garden hose storage unit that I want to buy for our place.  Actually, I want to buy two of them; one for the front yard, and one for the back yard!  What am I talking about?  A no-crank garden hose reel!  These things wind up a garden hose using water pressure!  So you don’t have to crank it by hand!  How cool is that? You can find more information (and order them) from the website http://no-crank.com.  Especially interesting is that the company is currently offering a No-Crank Rewards Program that you can sign up for.  The rewards program involves having your friends that buy one take enter the serial number of their unit into an account on the internet.  You get points and rewards and discounts as a result.