Clematis.....

Our new clematis did bloom. I love them. We had a two clematis in town, one on the mailbox and one on the entrance arbor. This is probably a bit sad...but hey ! it is blooming. Being on the east side of the house , it should make it through winter easily. This was not such a good year for my flowers, as it has been so very hot. , then there was the hard freeze in spring, it hurt somewhat. There's always next year, I guess. I plan on treating myself with a nice new rose bush on mother's day. I have seen everyone's flowers on blog sites. You are all doing very well. I saw some pretty roses just this morning on someone's site. That is not the easiest thing for me to grow.
  Yesterday, I caught the neighbor's goats ...out of their pen and in my yard ready to eat our plants. We ran them home with the garden hose,they hate water on them(?)... we penned them back up and it was not 15 minutes they were out again. We called the man to tell him he needed to fix the fence. He had Ted help him with his rickety old fence....good grief . I told the neighbor, this is my last time penning up your goats, fix the fence. Do you think the goats would go eat his beans or corn...no !!! they came straight to our yard. You can tell I am not happy about it all.  We never bother people , we mind our own business....all I want is the same respect. Things like this make me long to be back in town.  The topper is their lackadaisical attitude...saying "oh well you have to expect things like this." NO, NO I DON"T !!! Sorry for whining and ranting ..LOL.  xo