Beautiful Days & Day Lilies

Things turn out best for people who make the best
of the way things turn out.
John Wooden

We had an absolutely beautiful weekend in Minnesota. Those Golden Days we get too few of.

I was able to divide and transplant some day lilies, with much more still to go, and we got the gardens cleaned up and the lawn mowed. It was all good. I missed the big goofy dog while digging around in the dirt, as he was notorious for laying and rolling in my flower beds. Perhaps I'll see more blooms this year because he won't have smashed half the plants.

Kristina was out both days and it was a pleasure to see Zing looking like he knows what he's doing. We have about another month of his brain being so firmly planted elsewhere. The springtime urge to breed diminishes greatly by June. He really is not difficult, but the idea is there. And he's ridden in an arena which is separated by about thirty feet from several willing mares. With three of them, the testosterone is palpable on the farm. I think about cutting stallions, but they are all three good boys and I can't wrap my mind around any of them as geldings. 

I'm actually going to leave the farm today! We have dinner and a concert at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis tonight. My son is Chef de Parte at Level Five. He's really the supervisor of the restaurant and of the catering business, but he must keep a chef title because it's important in the French system. He was a sous chef for several years and he may want to go back to that someday. Anyway, I actually have to clean up. I don't know if I have anything that's not barn clothes that will fit me. I should find out before we are ready to leave.

So the ordinary of my life rolls on. It's another glorious day, there's work to be done and life to be savored.  Time now to get to the business of it.