Happy Saturday! Come on in! As always, a big thanks to Natalie of Natalie the Explorer for hosting WeekendCoffeeShare.

It was another week of up and down weather and it most likely will be the same in the upcoming week. As much as I welcome the rain, I’m not sure I enjoy the wind come of blow everything around before everything gets a good soak.

The chives I planted last year are beginning to flower while the lovage I planted a few years ago is getting tall and lush. I’m now trying to find ways to use this herb. The calendula I managed to overwinter is also starting to bloom. I hope to harvest and dry some of the blooms to use in a moisturizer.

I love the variety of flowers in the garden at this time of the year. So much colors.

I finally bought a table this week to put my trays of seedlings so I can finally move them off the front stoop and perhaps sleep easier knowing the seedlings are 2 feet off the ground.

I made the mistake of planting catmint in one of the flower beds about 2 years ago. Now and then, this vicious stray cat would come and lie on my flower bed, smashing my tulips and other flowers in the process. It even ripped out my newly transplanted agnastache a few days ago.

Oh, I’m so angry!

So angry that I wanted to put up fencing in the flower bed. You want to ruin my flowers, cat? No more playing nice with you.

I wondered if animals can hear my thoughts because the next night when I went to pull a bind weed out of the corner of my yard, my backyard neighbor’s dog ran up to the back fence, almost wanted to smash down the fence. It barked at me to the point I felt its saliva on my face. “I’m not an intruder, you dumbass!” I shouted at it as I retreated.

That’s not the only circumstance. My next door neighbor has these 2 dogs. Each time I approach my asparagus patch, it would run up and throw their bodies to the fence Then they would be barking non-stop. It’s utterly the most annoying thing ever.

Anyway, this week in the garden, I also caved in and planted some tomato plants. Tomato plants are usually planted on Mother’s Day here, which it’s next Sunday. However, this year has been extra warm with the last frost arriving some 15-20 days earlier than expected.

To play it safe though, I only planted bush determine-types tomatoes. Part of me is saying I should play it safe and wait until Mother’s day weekend to plant the vining tomatoes but who knows, I just might cave again.