The big one...kinda

I hate rocks. Its true. Especially when they are buried in the part of the yard that you're working on. Most of the weekend was spent trying to get rid of the rocks in the front of the house. We posted several ads online and had such an enormous response for those wanting free river rocks (we still have lots if your interested...). I helped load 2 trailers and 2 truck full of rocks. The yard is looking better, but...I. Hate. Rocks. Saturday morning was started way too early. My parents left us a list of stuff to find and we decided to hit the garage sales and see what we could find (we saw this car at one of the yard sales, but sadly, it wasn't for sale). The only thing that we found that was on the list is a seed spreader for $8. It seems that I need to develop a sense of urgency when garage/yard sailing with Cait. We finished up with the sales around 1000 (that's 10:00 am for you non-military types) and proceeded to go to Lowes. Time for a trimmer/edger. They had a sale for an electric Black & Decker for only $25. Add 100ft of extension cord, and we're in business. We're still going to keep an eye out for a cheap gas one at yard sales (maybe). And then we were off to the local Home and Garden show. That was a lot of fun. We met local vendors and business, got a free massage, bought some cake and won a gardening gift set. All-in-all a pretty productive morning/afternoon. Then came the rocks. On Saturday we (I) only had trailer to help load. Not a lot of fun. And with that, I'm going to stop complaining about the rocks...for now.

We also put down much in our almost completed flower garden. The red mulch against the colors of the flowers and imagining the color we're (I'm) going to paint the house...It looks wonderful. I can't wait until we fill in the last little bit where we can't figure out what to plant. But there will be red mulch there too

Sunday was spent loading rocks, trying to figure out what to plant (mainly achieved by looking at plants at Lowes), and recovering from Saturday. Sunday was kind of productive. Cait let me sleep in until 0930, which was wonderful. She's a wonderful person. I know that this is pretty short for two days worth of work and missed postings, but it was pretty repetitive. Work, work, work. Not a whole lot to it. Tomorrow I'll post what we've planted and used in our garden so far. That's it for tonight. Time to watch Cait flip through the channels while falling asleep.

-Brent


Here are the plants that came in the gardening gift basket: