This is a view from my office today.  The weather is just gorgeous out so it's high time I grade the driveway.  Whoa...what a bumpy business after seven months or so of zero attention.  

I hauled out my backpack sprayer today also.  This is the perfect time of year when the days are nice and warm but the daylilies haven't started growing yet to spray all the weeds with something...take that weeds!  

​I'm packed and ready to head out to the Region 2 Winter Meeting in Brookfield, Wisconsin.  Looking forward to a weekend full of daylilies.  Boy ...am I needing a fix.  I miss 'em!  Hope to see you there!

Uugh.  I just knew it.  This blogging thing just doesn't come easy for me.  In this day and age you might find it hard to believe but not all American's have good internet service at their homes!  Yes... that would be us.  Our property is bordered by state land AND county land....so no real urgency for a tower to be placed out in the boonies I suppose.  Oh well...I promise to keep blogging from the local grocery store parking lot in town!  

It's February 29th...an extra day.  That's it!  I've got this whole day to do whatever I want cuz it's a freebie right??  So I'll blog.  

I spent the day Saturday planting the seeds that I crossed last summer.  I've always been one to want to plant every seed because you just don't know what the potential could be right?  Well I've changed it up this year.  I planted 4,000 seeds and called it a day.  There are 2,500 still sitting in little plastic jewelry bags in the fridge but I doubt I'll plant them.  This year marks 15 years of doing "all things" daylily!  Goodness that seems like a chunk of time.  I remember walking into my first daylily symposium in 2004 looking into the eyes of a sea of strangers.  Sure doesn't take long and those strangers are your friends.  Daylily people come from good stock...well most of you....the rest of you know who you are!!  :)

The summer of 2017 holds something I've never done or been a part of before.  It's causing me to lose a bit of sleep.  The Region 2 Summer Meeting is being held in western Michigan.  Uh huh....that's my neck of the woods.  Our garden will be one of the stops along that journey.  I'm excited and terrified all at the same time.  Lots to do...fences to replace, fences to paint, fences to build.  Daylilies to weed, daylilies to plant, daylilies to cull.  All will get done, I know it will.  Those are the things that are necessary and somewhat simple.  But it's the little things like....should we have belly dancers in the gardens that day?  Should we have a small animal petting zoo available?  Should we offer oil changes for those who drive in from afar?  Should I ask my boys to park their "redneck swimming pool" out of sight?  What do I feed my dog that week to assure the visitors that she won't have gas so bad that she could kill a small farm animal?  All these things are fun and some are even alarming....but are they deal breakers?  Maybe so.  :)  Now do you understand my reasons for no sleep?  Just know that when and if you are able to attend you will get a small glimpse of "home at the McMahon's".  We aren't fancy, over-the-top people.  We just want you to feel comfortable when you come to our gardens.  

Spring is coming quickly and I'm geeked to see what may bloom in the seedling field this summer. Those are the surprises I love!  'Til then...I hope to see y'all in Wisconsin in March for the Region 2 Winter Meeting!!!!  And if you can make it up in 2017...pack your swimming trunks!!

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