It’s the beginning of May long weekend, Victoria Day, the weekend where every cottager is out at the lake and open windows to freshen the air and do their spring clean up.  Although this Victoria Day long weekend is starting out to very miserable.  There are places right now which are snowing and blowing.  It’s not supposed to snow this late in May?  Where the heck is our spring? This snow and frost has made some of poor perennials freeze and has made most of us Manitobans miserable.  

I had plans this weekend, some which will be kyboshed due to the cold snowy/rainy weather.  I had plans to work in my flowerbeds and make much of my dirt weed free and even call to have a truckload of dirt hauled to yard so that I can prepare an area to plant myself a little garden.  I also needed to spend a little more time cleaning up my yard of nails and shingle pieces from the roof being done. But who wants to be out and about in the yard while wearing a parka? 

I also had plans to head on out to some greenhouses and take a look at all the new plants, see what kind of fun and neat things are out there this year for the garden.  Again, having to be bundled up to head out doesn’t seem like much fun either.