Carolyn has found a couple of computer classes she wants to take. Right around the corner at the college. Piece o’cake. Audrey, on the other hand, would be better served by art classes, but she’s in an odd spot. She’s too old for kids’ classes, too young for adult classes, and most of the teen classes are for crafts – not her speed. So I did find a few places that offer fine arts – drawing, oil painting, etc., for teen level. . .40 minutes away in Monmouth County. We’ll have to see, have to keep looking. *sigh*

In the meantime, I have more shrubs to move and plants to plant, and when the contractor starts the exterior work on the house, we’ll have to ask him to rent a slightly larger dumpster than he had planned. We have much clutter and debris that would look better in the trash than around the house. Oh, and did I mention we have a frog living in the pond? Hubby said it would eat some of our smaller fish, but I’m OK with that. We have more fish than we know what to do with.

Springhill Gardens, one of the few mail order plant sources I’ll use, sent me replacements for the ferns that didn’t come up before. I had a different idea of where to plant them while I was waiting, so it was kind of good that the first batch was a dud. We also went out and bought two arbors to frame the slate patio, and I’m trying to germinate some Grandpa Ott’s morning glories and some moonflowers to climb up both of them. The moonflowers are much pickier than morning glories.

I wanted to have some other angles, but they all show too many works in progress. Oh, well.

This area is filling in nicely, too. I can hardly wait until the rhododendrons to either side of the azaleas catch up. It’ll be stunning.