Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

or something.

Every once in awhile I go through a spurt where I am completely uninterested in the computer and all things Internet. Of course I still check my email but everything else just gets to be too much.

The weather has been beautiful and we've been outside for the better part of the day, every day for weeks. The inside of my house is low on the totem pole of stuff that's important to me right now. We completed two rooms (1/2 bath, foyer) and almost completed the dining room, now we have switched our focus to the yard.

I had 4yds of dirt delivered and regraded the backyard/side yard, and fixed a downspout issue while Jer was in TX a few weeks ago. We put in two new flower beds and edged them with brick. We had one and a half tons of flag stone delivered last week for our new patio. A neighbor offered to give us her pergola for free if we would take it down for her, so now we are working on digging the holes for that and reassembling it over the patio area. When that is up we'll lay all the stone.

I have been planting peonies, astilbe, gladiolus bulbs, dahlias, re blooming day lilies, freesia, and pink bleeding hearts. I started the spinach (which is doing nicely), and the lettuce tape (which isn't doing shit). The veggies and plants I've started from seed are doing nicely and are almost ready to transplant. I chopped out three shrubs that my neighbor and her husband have been trying to kill for years, and as payment got some plants that had grown amongst the chaos.

I need to go to Joanns and get fabric to make a cushion for the side porch swing. I also need to buy the dwarf blueberry bushes I've had my eye on since January.

So much to do, so much to do....

2 comments:

  1. you go, girl!

    I feel so lazy, just holding Jo all the time. Today I made myself put her down for half an hour and reorganize some cabinets in my kitchen. I have quite the home improvement list starting, thanks to the new dryer and dying dishwasher.
    Proud of you!!!! It all sounds gorgeous. You must have a lot of shade for those astilbes and bleeding hearts- I had those in my house in Troy and miss them.

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  2. I have been pouring over the seed/plant catalogs for months now, trying to decide what I want back there. We have a triangle shaped garden that is in full shade all day thanks to a gigantic maple tree, the house, and the carport. I also want some Dutchman's Breeches and Triliums in that bed. The other bed is an L shape that is against the house. I have no idea what to put in that one since half of it will get late afternoon sun and the rest is in shade.

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