I Went Out to Water and the Next Thing I Knew I Had a Big Hole to Fill

I ran outside to water one garden and did not get back in for three hours!  While the hose was watering, I grabbed the pruners and cut down a few lily seed heads, then I pulled a few weeds, then I grabbed a shovel and removed a red daylily that I did not like in this spot....just like that... in an instant I had this mess to deal with and I wondered why I did not leave well enough alone.  I keep forgetting that I can't dig down more than four inches in this area. It is all rock which makes planting difficult.

The daylily clump came out as its own little garden -- with this tall heirloom  Rudbeckia 'Golden Glow' and a few pieces of the shorter black-eyed Susan attached.

I left it all together and plopped it in this area, which was bare because I have been killing out pink mallow for two years.  I dug out all the little mallow plants I could find before planting it. I am sure there are still seeds waiting to come up again next year. I will deal with that when it happens. I chose this spot because it was there and because the deck railings will provide support for the tall 'Gloden Glow'  which can get up to 7 feet or so.

Unfortunately I bent the yellow flower stem after this pic was taken and had to cut it down.

Now what to fill that hole with?  I bought a bee balm (Fireball) for 1/2 price yesterday.

The easiest thing to do would be to just stick that in.  After a little more thought,  I decided against that because there is too much sun in this area.

I  walked a few feet behind the hole and dug up another daylily. A pink one that goes better with this pink garden area (which was never pink until this year).

The daylily is just beginning to bloom, too.  I am now much happier with this area.

From this angle, you can see the 'Golden Glow' flowers. 

Around here if you see a Daddy Longlegs spider folklore says it's going to rain.

Sure enough, by late afternoon, it was raining.

I think it is going to rain more today, which is wonderful.

I spent most of my day outside yesterday, but I did go in to do one dreaded chore -- scrub the floors--I hate dirty floors. 

I also did another spur-of-the-moment task.  I baked decorated sugar cookies for my sweet husband. He loves frosted sugar cookies. I rarely make them because they take forever and I can't decorate for diddly...now why did that expression just pop in to my head?  LOL.   I tried..........
I made royal icing and I made some stiffer to outline the cookie...

When that dried, I made flooding icing to fill in the outline...that's where it all went wrong.....I think I made it too thick because it never quite "flooded" to the edges.  LOL. 

Let's hope they taste better than they look.