I've spent a good part of the weekend working in the backyard. Our backyard has a rather large planting bed in the middle of it. Its a love/hate relationship with that bed. When its all weeded its beautiful but "weeded" is the key word. I could spent my life out there. But this year there's hope. We've been able to get the front and around the house weeded and mulched and considering that's its only April there's hope that I will have the upper hand this year. Yesterday and today I did some major weeding and I'm hoping to put in 20-30 after work this week. Katherine loves coming outside with me..."I help". I should be able to finish the weeding, get some Preen down and get some pine straw down of the next week or so. Then I can spend the next month or so looking for pretty plants to fill in all the empty spaces (empty spaces mean weeds!). Part of our problem has been that we haven't filled in the bed with new plants, hence the weeding. This year will be different! Ha HA!! Take that flower bed!
Speaking of beds, Katherine now has her real official big girl bed. And its pretty special because it was her Daddy's bed when we was a kid. Ted's parents offered us half of the bunk bed set that was in Ted's room growing up. All it needed was a coat of white paint to turn it into the perfect little girl bed. They brought it last weekend and I set to work sanding and painting. Actually it was a fairly easy task and I enjoyed it (see previous post on puttering). Check it out.
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Katherine is actually the third generation to use the bed. We were happy to get it when Ted's parents retired. We think that the bunk beds had been Kathleen's and Margaret Anne's at some point.
Beautiful bed!!!
I think we are having the same "not this year evil garden" conversation in our heads! I have spent so much time outside already getting things prepped - of course we can't plant until after Mother's Day... but I am with you - this year will be different!!!
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