A tree service came through and the foreman gave me an estimate. I don't usually hire people like that but I connected with him. As he described what his crew would do it was a lot like what I had been wanting to have done - removing limbs from trees, trimming the weeping cherry, removing a tree that was growing into the cherry, cutting down a dead tree. They did a really good job and cleaned up the yard nicely. This spur of the moment decision did work out. We have lots of trees. Believe it or not, we live in a neighborhood that is a bird sanctuary.
I'm cleaning out the garden areas too. It's time to plant vegetables and flowers. One day soon I need to get to the garden center. I noticed that the dianthus is already blooming, It is growing in a pot on the deck. It survived the winter. The tomatoes will be in planters on the deck.
April showers bring May flowers. I'd better hurry and get my plants out; April is almost over and the plants will have missed the rains.