Front Garden still frozen..................................

Well I almost finished raking the back garden today. It is almost finished. Well not really but as much as I can for now. What I really want to do is plant flowers. Alas, not yet. This is the front garden.

I did see that one lone Daffodil is braving the weather and making an appearance.

My wind chimes mainly survived. One broke, one of the beaded ones but all the others survived intact.


Well, I do know there is one heck of a lot of work to do out front. I noticed that several shrubs died. I am not sure if I can replace them or not. I suppose I will have to wait until I see what everything looks like once the raking is done. Right now the, what should be grass is all plastered with leaves. the side just looks like a mud patch. As soon as that gets raked I will have to sow seed there. Gosh, I wish I could buy sod. No chance. I do have to finish the front fence though. What a mess it all is.
This guy was up in the tree noshing on something.

I liked this shining in the sun

I tried to break up the ice out back again today but that was a no go, my back was hurting from raking. Not a good sign. Tomorrow is supposed to be a bit nicer and sunnier. Maybe I can get some more raking done. I need to rake all the stuff to the curb that I raked up and added to Gerry's pile. The driveway looks terrible and we have an appraiser coming on Friday. We are refinancing the house. Got to get the mortgage down so Gerry can retire. Trying to get everything else paid off for that event. SO that's why funding for my garden will be lean and mean.
This is the back today

So close, yet so far away. I did notice that some daffodils are pushing through out there and the Hyacinth's are popping through. Just a few more days and it's going to be 70 degrees. Then we will see everything pop. Then again the beginning of next week more rain and the weatherman said snow. Thats OK it won't settle once the ground has been warmed up. Maybe next week I will have some better pictures.