A Good Gardening Weekend

It was a good weekend for me gardening-wise. I got the side yard cleared of the dead things from winter, and finally clipped back the coralbells azaleas around the air conditioner. In the photo you can see the one remaining rhododendron from a group of six originally purchased. The others died from some type of root rot disease, but this last one is doing great.

We have had lots of thunderstorms lately, and the last one at 2:00am Saturday exposed a leak we have in our roof over the master bedroom which Andrew thought he had previously repaired with caulk. I guess he will have to take off the shingles and install new vent flashing now. Anyways, I went down to the dock this evening to see if the water is back up, but unfortunately we still don't have enough water to canoe. The storms have made a bit of difference, about 6 inches or so, but we are still over 1 foot under full pond. You can view a video clip here of the water from our dock, and Harley the ham managed to get in this video too!