The first of my day-lilies are flowering!
These are the common wild, orange or tawny daylilies (Hemerocallis fulva), also known as the ditch lily. They're native to Asia, but widely naturalized in many parts of the world, including North America.
I found these last year growing wild on the property and my land-lady told me I could dig out as many as I wanted. Which I did of course .. hey, free plants!

The sad saga of my vegetable seeds and starters 'that just don't want to grow' is continuing .. well, let me stay positive here .. the cucumber is showing two flowers, but hasn't grown 'up' at all!

                                                  

And I finally have my first Snow-peas while most people are already eating them for a month!

   

Two of the six (Rattlesnake) Pole beans have emerged. I have to say that they look good but will they ever start to climb?

And here's something totally crazy ... that's the Rhubarb making new a new leaf after it died down completely this spring ... ????

Oh well ...

The pond is teeming with dragonflies at the moment, like this Common Whitetail Dragonfly:

  

Fun fact: Before bats, before birds, before pterosaurs, a dragonfly-like insect was probably the first thing to fly on Earth. 
Just one 'tiny' difference ..  it had a wingspan of about 2 feet!

We also see a lot of these (much smaller) Blue Dashers :

                                                           

They're even more 'common' than the White-tails but much smaller.
Both species are very aggressive predators and will eat hundreds of flying insects a day – which is up to ten percent of their body weight!

I'd set out some of my bee cocoons, when the temps were getting higher about 2 weeks ago, and some are still sitting where I put them but others have disappeared. 
I have no idea if they actually hatched or if they were just blown away or snatched up by birds (despite the nifty cage I'd put around their house) but the 'tunnels' inside the bee-house are already filling up with new cocoons, so I guess some survived or I have new ones coming in!




Talking about houses .. the big, red barn on the property is no more.
After the sides the roof came off, followed by the trusses and finally almost all of the beams:

       

        

The plan was to re-build the barn almost exactly as it was, with the same scenario for the grey barn, but it looks like plans have changed, as they so often do, and most likely they'll build only one barn back, albeit a larger one than the old (red) one.
It will move a little closer to the RV but it won't be in our way, or view, so we're fine.

I'm still pretty much couch-bound, my ankle still smarts and is now proudly showing a rainbow of colors, mainly blue, purple yellow and green.
James picked up a cane at goodwill which helps me move around the RV a little to empty the tanks and water the flowers. You can only sit for so long before you go stir-crazy!
I also made this gorgeous bread:

                                         

Fortunately temperatures have come down some this week, around 70F, which is soooo much better than the 95 of the week before!
It's going to stay like this for a while, just pleasant spring weather .. I can't believe it'll be (officially) Summer next week!

We've been hanging out on the porch this weekend ... we can't really go for an outing anywhere, with me not being able to walk much, but it's kind of nice to take it slow sometimes, just doing nothing .. 

... except for throwing some (thin) ribs on the BBQ ..

                                ... and munching on some corn ..

For comic relief there's always Samson.  After he went for a swim in the pond he tried to drag half a tree with him .. never a dull moment for him!