We made all the phone calls, invited everyone over for 5 pm and then opened the screen door and looked outside.
Here’s a tip for anyone new to lawn maintenance…Scott’s Turf Builder lawn fertilizer REALLY freeking works. We have mowed the lawn 3 times in the past 10 days and we had to mow it yet again today. My lawn has decided it wants to be as tall as a corn field.
We also had to go to Home Depot to replace our fire pit blocks. The old ones were completely cracked. While we were there the man got a new BBQ under lining thing…I dunno what the hell it is, but he swears that he needed it…and he got a new axe…he was so thrilled with his sharp new toy that he carried it around Home Depot like Paul Bunyan…it was really entertaining.
I then realized OMG my family is coming over and my flower beds look like CRAP. The perennials that the previous owner bought last year did not fare well over the winter and they have all died. They are all shriveled, brown and UGLY.
So, I took my axe toting Paul Bunyan to the Home Depot Garden section for more plants. Well…HOLY CRAP…I’ve never been to a nursery before…I don’t know a damn thing about plants…all I know is that I like riots of color, varying heights, and not too much green… Imagine a gorgeous English flower garden…that’s what I wanted. What I walked away with was shade to deep shade green plants *sighs*
The flower bed that I needed them for faces north. It gets very little, if any, sun. Today I learned that it will be impossible to have riots of color there. I pouted a little …ok…a lot…and then proceeded to try to learn something about shade plants. I learned that Home Depot doesn’t carry a wide variety (they had 4 plants to choose from…oh yippee) so we paid for the stuff we had in our cart and went to an actual Green House Nursery.
When I told the lady at this nursery that I wanted as much color as possible for my deep shade plants she actually said “tsk, tsk, green gardens make such a stronger statement, they are so much more elegant” *rolls my eyes* my flip flop up her butt would’ve made a statement as well, but Lance, my Paul Bunyan super hero rescued me from the pretentious flower bitch by calling his sister who told me what I needed and what sections of the green houses to look at.
I ended up with green…more than I personally like, but I also ended up with a lot of flowering plants that will bloom in the shade. I snuck in a few bright happy colored annuals to help off set all of the green, and Lance bought me 2 hanging pots of plants for the front of our house full of bright chaotic colors, though I un-hung one to put in my Tina-the-turtle flower pot. (Wait’ll you see pictures of Tina…she’s too cute…she’s a turtle and she has a little sun bonnet on *lol*)
Tomorrow we are planting them. In the fall we are going to transport the tulips from our south facing flower bed and move them to the side of the house and then…oh yes! THEN my friends, I can have a big crazy riot of color chaos flower garden *grinz* I’ll suck it up with this ugly green flower bed as long as I can have my crazy colored one next year.
We rushed home from Home Depot and the Flower Nursery to unload the car, then it was back on the road to fill up the BBQ propane tank and then over to Lance’s sisters to get some wood for our fire pit. Another pit stop on the way home to get garlic bread, salad, corn on the cob, and some steaks…then we hit the liquor store to get some coolers and beer…and then finally we were able to go home and start doing everything that needed to be done.
Here’s another tip…if you are going to plan an out door party, make sure that you don’t need to do hours of work to the said outdoors on the day the party happens.
Lance mowed the yard, tore down the old fire pit, and built the new one. I cleaned up the house, got dinner organized, weeded my backyard flower beds, picked up dog poop *ugh* and managed to shower and get dressed before everyone showed up.
Tonight was a blast. My mom, step dad, and sister Kim came over for BBQ dinner and played train dominoes and talked and laughed and just hung out - After all the work we did for the firepit it was just too cool to sit outside and enjoy it *sighs*. My mom and sister turned it into a birthday party for me (yea, I’m officially old on Wednesday)
I am having a really hard time falling asleep lately. I keep myself busy and I am active throughout each and every day. I have weaned myself off of the pain killers and learning new ways to cope with these horrid blood clots. I cut my caffeine intake to 1 can of pop a day, if that, most of the time I drink water. I don’t know what to do to make sleep actually happen. I lie in bed and read and read and read some more just waiting to drift off, but here I am again at 2 am and I am still WIDE awake.
I’ll take pictures of all the flowers and the new fire pit tomorrow. I am now gonna go play PS2 and hope that some mindless game of Hot Shots 3 will take my brain to sleep.
Ciao!
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