Laura Vegas

thanks for all your posts about joe’s "incident". lol! i figure now that i’ve shared a "wingnut" moment of his … i better show him at work too!

yep … we did some yardwork today. i’ve been talking about getting a few new plants for the front yard. we’re on a corner lot … with a detatched garage on the side. so our front yard is actually pretty good size. and luckily we have planted some good basics over the last few years … some plants that have really done well. i should have taken a picture of our birch trees … they’re looking so good. hard to believe we only paid $12 bucks for them last year. we were in desperate need of some new bark too. after 5 years of living here … the bark that came with the house was wearing pretty thin and looking pretty bad.

so we headed off to home depot … much to the dismay of the girls. they were not thrilled to be going! lol! picked up a few new plants … and even 2 to put in the huge pots we have by the front door walkway. those pots have been empty for over a year now. i never did plant anything in there last year. we also picked up a bunch of bags of new bark. i didn’t know it was so cheap … only $2.77 for these huge bags of great colored bark. of course … the 8 bags didn’t go as far as we thought. and when joe went back they only had 4 bags left. so we still need to pick up some more to finish off by the garage.

but it looks so great. cute little new plants that hopefully will do good. trimmed up some of the shrubs … i can even see out my kitchen window again. i was worried that if i waited … the yard dudes will hack them into a box shape like they like to do. not that they ever touch my plants … but with my luck they would and then ruin them. still need to trim up a few things … but ran out of room in the yard bin … and it doesn’t get emptied for another week. lol!

good excuse to put off finishing up the yard work! lol!