"A garden is never so good as it will be next year."-- Thomas Cooper

This is the Snowball bush from Gurneys that I planted like 2 months ago. And its BLOOMING!

Its scientific name is Viburnum "opulus roseum" sterile (no berries)

This is the tip of my snowball bush and the neighbors tree.


Miniature rose bud!





My first rose bloom!!! They are really small!


Strawberry plants!

My pink tipsy pots! Its not full yet but it will be overloaded with.... Wave Petunias!

http://www.birdsandblooms.com/Tipsy-Pots-Project/detail.aspx

Just a pink feathery bloom from my celosia

Our brick pathway leading from the back porch. When we went and got our HUGE batch of brick we went ahead a picked up the broken ones. And of course we just had to use them (waste not want not LOL) so honey chipped up some more brick and Wah-lah! We added some stepping stones of, course. I mean who wants to walk on brick chips. OUCH!



Peony's are about to bloom! I can't wait!


I love this pot! Its perfect for another strawberry plant!

Now if I can only find some more of these planters : (

Blank canvas, no more.

I was looking though my photos stored on our computer the other day and I found some pictures that I would like to share with you.

We changed our counter tops last year so my honey bun built counters so our old counter tops could go in the garage!

He worked really hard!

And I painted it! (I'm no Monet but I thought it was cute) Now its a perfect potting/ work counter! I love it.

This is the tree I painted (see the apples) and the baby jars for holding screws and such.

This is the beautiful brick pathway my honey installed after finding the brick on craigslist! We had to load and unload all of it! But it was worth it!

We had a lot of chipped brick so honey chipped it up smaller, then we found some stepping stones on sale at Wal-mart. Wah-lah! A pathway.

The rest of the brick- patio for the pergola we are going to build later.

~When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed

and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground

easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown

LOL

Yearning for the dirt!

Today it is raining...again. last night before falling asleep I had already planned what I was going to do today.

I was going to trench the edge of this flower bed (refer to Toostietime. blogspot.)

Plant sweet peas on this trellis (I can already smell it!)

See my roses?? yeah I cant either. That's why I was going to weed and get it ready for the lavender I plan to plant in between the roses.

Trench the far left edge of this flower bed and get it ready for FLOWERS!

And last of all.

Till this garden again and add the manure and peat moss.

And of course another million things to do.... but that will have to wait til another day.

*whew* is it just me or did it wear you out getting the garden ready?

Oh ..phewwy its not done!

TWILIGHT OBSESSION!!

My first Hydrangea bloom!!!
The hydrangeas in front of the porch
The walkway my honey installed on Sunday and Monday! Isn't he GREAT?!
Its Beautiful thanks to my very mechanically inclined husband!

So I haven't posted anything in a while and that is for several reasons. The first reason is I have been obsessed with the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. My sister-in-law was the one who introduced me to these books. I had heard several conversations between her and my other sil about "vegetarian vampires." That really had me skeptical to try these books well that along with the fact it is young adult. And I hate to say it, but I don't really like teenagers and I was afraid that the characters would be really immature and childish. On the contrary I started it and discovered to my utter amazement that I was becoming obsessed with Edward Cullen!!! Yeah the "vegetarian vampire"!!! So I read the first book (Twilight) on Thursday and the second book (new moon) on Friday/Saturday . So I was ready for the third book on Monday. (we had been working out in the yard so I didn't have time to read it on Sunday and my honey took a vacation day on Monday :) So we call my sil and ask her if they have the third book and her son was reading it!!! I was like getting to the point of jitters by this time b/c I wanted it so bad!! He said he would be done by today, but I had already been bitten (lol) so we made a quick stop by wal-mart to buy the third book. Yeah I now have my "thirst" lol under control so I am trying to slow down and savor it.

The second thing is on Sunday I went to see MAMMA MIA with my other sil Amy. The movie was the sing a long version. Which meant every time and I do mean EVERY TIME they sang a song they put up the lyrics like karaoke! And when Amy called to ask if anyone had actually ever sung they said no. well lucky me. The woman who sat behind me decided that she needed to sing. And even funnier that that There was a sad part and I kinda got watery eyes and before I could try that 1 tear that threatened to drop they put up some lyrics and nothing makes me less likely to cry that karaoke!! So that actually turned into something funny! So I am recommended that the next time you go watch a musical at the theater get the sing a long version. Its funnier.

The Third thing is.. gardening. I have become a maniac planning my "garden" well I mean eventually it will encompass at least 75% of the back yard. My husband is of course panicking, he doesn't like flowers "he has allergies" or so he keeps saying when I ask him what he thinks of my hydrangeas. I am just so excited about finally having a garden that I can be proud of and invest my time in. And even though he has "allergies" he is very happy that I am happy. So that's all a girl can ask for. :)


So here I am now.