My Lists

David Strom and Margaret Martin are my fellow bloggers and friends in Minneapolis whom I met due to our shared connection of being birdie parents.  They're also quite industrious; check out their blog and see all the lists of "to-do's" that they've got!

This morning, David and Margaret inspired me.  Here are my own personal lists, like theirs, for home improvement and what's blooming in the garden.

Home Improvement

1. Clean out the gutters (at least once a year).
2. Unpack the boxes in the basement that have remained untouched since my house was built in 1991.
3. Clean birdie poop off the high windows in the bedroom.
4. Try to find all the records in my office to do my taxes for 2006, in the hopes that my estimates will be close to whatever the actual bottom line is on the return.
5. See if the barbecue grill cover really is still in the woods outside the deck - and then fetch it back.
6. Organize my office.
7. Discover why the laptop sometimes runs as if it's on dial up circa 1993.
8. Trim the bushes (at least once a year).
9. Figure out what to do with the 122 samples from Clinique and Estee Lauder that are strewn around the bathroom and my closet.
10. Replace aging birdie cages.
11. Go shopping for garden plants - maybe (see below.)

What's Blooming in the Garden

1. Some ground cover with tiny white flowers (strawberry something or other?)
2. A couple of hanging-on daffodils.
3. A few allium.
4. Hardy geranium ground cover.
5. Just planted New Guinea impatiens.  (Give them a few weeks to croak.)

That's about it.  Plants hide in fear when they see me coming through the aisle.  However good Margaret is with all sorts of living creatures that go into the ground?  I'm about the opposite.  Call us "the Green Thumb" meets the "Kiss of Death" thumb.

Comments

[David Strom]

Peg Kaplan?!
Kiss?!?!
I am swooning! However, I would have to decline your kiss of death, however tempting it might be. ;-)

Good list, except you should add one thing to almost every one: "Hire someone to..." ;-)

I wish we could AFFORD to do that, but if we could, I assure you we WOULD!

PS--I have fallen in LOVE with hardy geranium. Tough plant, and looks better than it deserves to, given how tough it is!