Five days of sunshine, lawn cut, buddleia pruned, lilac planted out. The gardening season has started at JonboyE Towers.

Wet winter? Pah! It's forgotten already. Now, where did I put my shorts?

Puh-lease! Stop the torture!
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+8C here today - dare I hope this will continue

No planting here as our ground will still be brick hard. Our pool has a very thick layer of ice on it which I hoping will defrost by the end of May!

Mr Y-C-D is in Las Vegas this week (on his job's training course, what a life!) and they were all out and about wearing t-shirts basking in 12C whilst locals were wearing jackets and gloves.

I think he is becoming Canadianised

On a completely unrelated topic, today is the start of of flower counting week in Victoria. 3.3 billion blooms by the end of this week last year. Less than a million so far this year, but it's early days...

A week's training course... in Vegas?
I went to a "conference" once in Vegas.
The only thing that conferred all week was my throat and the Samuel Adams Brewing Company.

If he's anything like me he will come back not remembering his name never mind some bunch of new job-related guff.

la la la la la .............. I'm not listening

You mean you didn't spend the weekend in shorts? I was out there in my garden all weekend - following the sun around the house! - in t-shirt and shorts, planting some perennials. The garden centres were really busy all weekend.

This is the time of year we can crow at our friends back east, eh Jonboy?!

I remember a sunny february day in Don Mills back in 83. A package from Nan had arrived with some knitting patterns and I wandered down to the mall and got some yarn and needles, strolled back home. Ice and snow on the drive and in the garden all gone. I got a blanket out on the lawn, donned the bikini, cranked up the stereo and spent the day basking in the sun knitting. The neighbors looking at me like I had just landed from an alien planet.

Thank GOD! we don't have to worry about those chores for a few weeks yet.

Lovely jubbly ............ 12c here today took this photo yesterday

I could easily waken up to that view in the morning

There is not very much better than a beautiful day in BC.

White Rock.

... great shot, my wife mentioned something about "the 1,000 steps" (is that close to you?)

It's about a mile behind me from where the picture was taken. Despite the name it is only about 300 steps, but when you are old, fat and out of condition like me it feel like 3,000.