The weather here in our part of Texas has turned just about perfect for gardening and working outside. Lorena is in a near nirvanic state. When the weather is like this and she has some dirt and plants near by, she is wildly happy. She has gotten most of the maintenance stuff she wanted out of the way and is now moving on to special new projects, planting at least one new tree, putting borders around the trees in the front yard, making the ornamental drainage rocks flow more nicely in the landscape, replacing a bush that died, figuring out some new herbs she can plant that grow well in Texas, and the BIG project of working with a contractor to extend the sprinkler system and add some sod to manage erosion in an area where we are starting to get a little bit of an arroyo.