Outdoor Clean-up

Oh, the magnificence of a teenager! We hired a couple teenagers to help us get our (not so) white fence cleaned so we (well, they...) could paint it.

Check out the progress just by cleaning!!

So it was a little green and gunky! Tell us something we didn't know!Big D has been replacing old, rotted posts this year and they will need to be painted. So we figured we better clean the rest of it (around the house people - not the entire five acres... yet!!!) So had cleaned on Tuesday and figured on painting on Friday, but this rain has really soaked the boards. We really had some good downpours last night (Wednesday). Don't think they will be dry by Friday.

Oh, and did I show you the other marvelous project we have coming up?? Yeah, a dump truck load of soil. I am so excited (for those teenagers) to get it in the new flowerbeds and (yet to be marked off) herb garden/patio area. Oh, to have a nice flower bed area again. Wait have I had on of those yet? Did I say nice? Well, at least to have one I can think about. Can't wait to get those garden/flower books out of the storage unit!! Arrgh.

OK, hope I can hang some laundry today!! :-)

Rain. again.

It is raining again today.
My dahlias are going to rot.


On a better note, the majority of the sweet peas are about 2" tall now. I know they like this cooler weather. Some day the weather will change and I will probably be complaining about not planting a drought resistant garden.

Always something to complain, I mean find joy in, right? ;-)

rain ... small hinderance

The rain is back. I should have known after such a lovely day yesterday and a predicted warm - dare I say hot - couple days coming up at the end of the week, that today it should rain. No container moving/arranging today. Now, mind you, I don't melt like some people I know, but since becoming pregnant I am cold all the time. The rain seems to amplify it. I keep turning the heat up in here. I hope that "warm" weather they are talking about is really coming; maybe I'll get to wear a couple of those cute sleeveless maternity shirts I have picked up along the way.

Anyway, the kids had fun outside in the puddles.