Yard Work & Mulching Madness

We took full advantage of the break in the storms today. First we went over to my old house (four doors down on Vine Street) and worked in the yard. It's used by MMS at times but no one is living there now and the yard looked like it. I'd mowed there yesterday so I went over today to trim and cut down the jungle growing up between the patio bricks in back of the house. Karen focused on finding, turning, and replanting the flower beds. We're going to take care of the outside of the house for the time being. There'll be plenty over there to keep us busy.

Once we accomplished those tasks, dodging the rain drops, we pulled our wagon full of yard equipment back to our place and attacked the rose bed and front flower bed. The first photo is of Karen planting geraniums by the rose bed and trellis. The roses are loaded with buds. We removed the old mulch, cleaned the beds and, spread new mulch. We set three stepping stones on the side of the house and Karen PLANTED THE SALSA GARDEN!!!! (Photos of that in a future blog) The second photo is of our front flower bed after we finished with it.

By the time all that was done, we were done. I think we're going to grill some hot dogs and sit back to watch a couple movies. We're taking the rest of the evening off. How about you?