Yard theraphy

Hello,
I am so happy, I got my front yard rid of most of the weeds that were bugging me! Such a satisfied feeling to have when it is finished. I tackled the mound first, and then turned over the patch of soil that was bare(will get a couple of plants for that), then proceeded to trim what needed it too. Looks so much better. On to the side of the front fence, trimmed back some plants there, and on to the front right side where the Peonies are arriving in force, they have lots of buds this year, and I have one that hasn't had any the first two years it has been around. I was so pleased to see this!! Trimmed some more plants that were growing over the wood border, then pulled more of those weeds!!! I have a bit more there to do, but wanted to continue to pull weeds on the other fence on the right side, so that I could come back to the other spot another day. Found a beautiful pink rose hiding among the Daisies that have taken that spot with a vengeance! I took a picture of that later, but I am getting ahead of things!! When I had disposed of the two bins of weeds, and trimmings, I then watered some plants that were needing it, and am pleased to tell you that most of the Dahlias that were planted before the rains, are coming up!!! Yea, I thought they had rotted with all the rain that they got just after being planted!!!!!! Wow!! a lot of surprises, yes? Well anyway, looks so much better and I feel better having done it, although I know for sure I will be sore big time tomorrow!!!!!!! But it will be worth all of the pain to know that I have done a good job of ridding the yard of most of the weeds that were bugging me to know end!!!! The last goodie I wanted to tell you about was all the butterflies that were fluttering around the yard all afternoon. They are Monarchs, I am almost sure, will look them up, but it was so neat they way they kept coming in waves all afternoon, like they had a journry to make and were in a hurrry to do so. This was in the back yard as well, I got a picture of one on my Lilacs!!!!!!! Lucky me!! Ah, such small things make me happy!!! Well, that's a gardener for you. :-) Ta Ta for now. Antique Rose