I can't believe it, but we were out raking the yard yesterday and cleaning up lots of debris from our lovely Siberian Elms. Our yard was full of small mounds of loose dirt. I didn't find runs beneath. I did see some normal mole runs but not near these mounds. They were about 12 inches in dia and height. My neighbor thinks it is armadillos....I don't know, but I have decided it is not moles.

I found lots of perennials coming up and jonquils. I tried to mound some of the leaves over them; hoping they won't get completely killed back by a hard freeze. I hate this weather!

Today we will haul off the limbs or I will chop them. I still have a few bags of shredded leaves to spread and will try to get that done. I give up waiting for a hard freeze to do it.

It did give me gardening fever though.

I have received tons of catalogs; lots of fun looking them over.