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At last! My birthday present!
Jun 12, 2008 | 8:37 PM PST
My brother always gets me some kind of gift card or certificate to some gardening place. Same this year. But it's hard to wait until it's warm when I can finally go get some flowers, etc. (Birthday is in Feb.) So yesterday we went to the local Feed and Seed and bought a truck load of mulch and some annuals for the front porch! Yeah! The mulch looks so nice under the big maples and around the littler trees and in the bed in front of the front porch. Have more mulch to spread still. #1 son thought it stunk but after awhile, he got used to it. He filled buckets and I dumped and spread the mulch about. Somebunny (hee-hee) has been eating the leaves and tops off my beans (grrrrr!). Need to plant more and then dowse the area with hot sauce, which I need to get more from town. Hubby said the place looked real nice. Dad-in-law thought I had dumped lots of dirt under the trees and around some beds (he was talking about the mulch). Hmmm! Time for new glasses? If his daughter had been there she would have called him "Helen" (as in Helen Keller)! hee-hee! Need to call little brother and tell him thanks for the mulch and flowers...