I am so tired right now, so this will be a short post. We spent most of the day outside today and the fresh air has done me a world of good.

We live in an apartment and we are on the first floor, ground level. Our balcony looks over the front of the building which is on a beautiful treed lot. On the lawn there is a huge maple tree..close to our balcony there is dogwood bush and a lovely Japanese maple...all in all, very nice and shady all afternoon. Today we planted a few hostas and clamatis. The latter right in front of our balcony which has a trellis on it, giving the clematis something to climb on. In planter boxes we planted some blue flowers (the name escapes me right now) and some white impatiens. Once everything gets going it will look very nice i'm sure...will take some pics at some point.

Now we are looking for some nicer furniture for out there...we'll need some luck in our search i'm afraid...all of the furniture we've seen have been big sets of four chairs with table and umbrella...patio furniture, which is a bit too much for our balcony. I will keep my eye open.

I'm also looking for a new television and will get to the mall one day to look for now but i'm in no hurry.

Everyone is asleep...since we were outside all day we're all pooped...the fresh air did mother a world of good.

I am off to bed...will be asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow.