Discussions gone awry

John was off on Monday. He decided breakfast should be at Tiffany's, so off we went. It was an enjoyable meal until...

John said he was going to reclaim our garden space. His reason was because we have not taken care of it. I admit (and have here in the past) it has become overrun with weeds. I said, "Can't you give us a warning, rather than just taking it away?"

This is when our wonderful nine-year-old, who learns things from places even I don't know where she gets it, piped in. "Yeah, Dad! Even the county sends you a letter and gives you a deadline!" Well, that was all we needed. He relented and gave us until June 30th to have it cleand out.

Yesterday morning all three of us were out there pulling weeds to SAVE OUR GARDEN! :) I love the girls do not want to give up this space. So much so they are willing to work hard for it. Of coarse, they are the first ones out to pick the veggies when there is a garden. They love it. So I am hoping that not only will we have all the weeds taken care of by June 30th, but I will find a way to put some plants in too. Or else it will be too late to have one this year. :(

Whew!

This morning the girls and I ventured into the yard. I watered (and fed) all the plants recently planted. And the girls watered their plants. I was still watering/feeding when the girls asked for more work to do. Of course the actual garden needed to be weeded, so that became their new task. Once I finally had everything watered, the three of us came together to plant the strawberries in a second bed. We still have a good bit of weeding to do, but we'll get there eventually.

My Dad brought down a butterfly bush yesterday. It was pitiful before my parents left, by this morning it was very sad. I am hoping, now that it is in the ground, it will become a happy plant. Fingers crossed.

Another weekend down

We spent the weekend at my parents. It was my Dad's birthday! (And Sonny's, "Happy birthday, Sonny!!!")

We decided to go Friday night instead of Saturday morning, to hopefully avoid some rain. The plan Dad and I had was for us to dig up some of his plants/trees he was going to give me for our yard. I'm glad we went early, when it started raining it didn't stop. The back of my van was loaded with hostas, lilies, hydrangea tree (of some sort), a peach tree, strawberry plants and another plant I don't know the name of. Now, if it would stop raining I could actually plant stuff.

Here is my van full of plants:

70 and need more!!!

We really thought we would finish the mulching in the backyard yesterday. John took the day off thinking one more load of forty bags would do it. We had already done thirty over the weekend. We were so close! But alas we still need more bags for the backyard. I am not even going to start with what is left in the front yard. Now, John has a nice large space for his corn, so hopefully he'll get that going very soon.

The girls' flower gardens look nice and every morning they go out to water their plants (and mine, thankfully). I still need to start our garden. I may wind up at Lowe's to buy a few plants (tomatoes) rather than start some from seed. We'll see how things go. I still have one hibiscus to plant. Luckily they are staying moist (not wet) in the bags my Dad sent them in, so I'm not worried about it for another couple of days.

The girls also want to plant a few flower seed too. Again, hopefully one day this week. Our week, school field trip wise, is very slow this week. Thankfully!!! I do love our trips out, but when it all comes at once I feel like I can't breath sometimes. Today, we are doing a bit of school, laundry, general cleaning and preparing to teach tonight (MM won't be there).

TKD is going well. However, I really wish MM would give me a chance to teach on my own. He asked Brady to come help and Alex asked if he could come too, so MM said yes. {eye roll} I found out last Thursday that on Tuesday, Brady was teaching my white belt form incorrectly. If I were teaching them, with the aid of my two wonderful blue jackets, I would not have to worry about what they are learning. Tonight, I'm going to have to make sure they are teaching correctly. That just means one of my blue jackets with each of the black jackets (not including me). I hope that made sense. :)

Anyway, no sense dwelling.

There are many things going on here in our Morgan household, some new and some the same, but it all seems very exciting with the world blooming. Have I ever told you spring is my favorite season? It is! I love we finally begin to break out of our cocoons, homes, and get back out into the world with its vibrant colors bursting out everywhere. Ahh. I do love spring.

Whew, I'm tired (you have to do the southern drawl on tired)

I don't think we stopped for very long today. We started the day at Lowe's, of course. We needed mulch for the front yard and some plant food. Chloe got her six-pack of marigolds (Jesse took the first six-pack) and one orange french marigold.

So, what was accomplished today:

second hibiscus planted
hydrangea moved to new location
mulched half of new hydrangea area (11 bags) - ran out of mulch
mulch on the up hill side of the house (in the front yard)
girls' hummingbird feeders out and filled
most of Chloe's plants planted (Jesse is finished, until early April)
all plants fed/watered
weed block/mulch in backyard (15 bags)
all weeds and kitchen scraps (able to) put into compost bin
two trips to Lowe's (one tonight to prepare for in the morning)

A think we accomplished quite a good bit of work today. The yard is looking great. Just need to finish up all the mulch and get the garden prepared for this year.

Also, we believe Morgan was in a pageant tonight (the text message was a bit vague). We hope she did great and are hoping to hear about the outcome.