dirtdobber's Blog

Well, it is 830 am and I'm tired and sore from yesterday. I've been off this week and I'm trying to do everything I can squeeze into a week. I am not really a morning person so it's hard for me to get going early enough to accomplish all that I want. Maybe b/c I have to get up at 4am for work...so when I'm home I kind of need to languish over my coffee and watch the birds and read a little.

Yesterday, though, I accomplished a lot. I tilled and retilled my veggie garden. I was working in some compost. That dirt now looks like gold to me! We have the fence posts around it and will get fencing up today. I decided to till up a whole seperate section for my corn. Don't really know why, but I did. I also have 2 flower beds that I want to till up and get started. My biggest problem there is deciding where to put one of them. It nearly killed me going to Lowes to get veggie things and not get "flower things"! But I must stay focused! Although I did plant my 2 clematis bulbs that I got for 1/2 price. One looked pitiful. I don't think he will make it. The other looked better. I also hung up a new bird feeder. I don't have another birdbath, so I turned a pot upside down and filled the saucer with water and put on top. ALSO, yesterday, I worked like crazy at the entrance to our subdivision. We have a sign coming into the street that has a built in flower bed. When we moved here last summer, it was a nightmare. Weeds, paint chipping on the sign, no flowers. Awful. You should see it now. I workd a little on it last fall getting it cleaned up and planted a couple of things, but it is gorgeous now! I planted yesterday...iris, snapdragons, petunias and there are already some chrysanthymums. I'll try to get a picture on here. I had several people stop to tell me how pretty it all was. Makes me feel proud...and I just think it is nice when coming home, to turn into the street and see something beautiful. Isn't that why God gave us these lovely flowers?

At the very end of the day, I decided to cut the grass. All set to cut my 3 little acres and I had a flat tire after a couple of rows of cutting. Hubby worked on the tire last nite, so I'll get going on that today. I'm also going to try to surprise him and get the fence up by myself! We'll see!

Well, it's friday..not much week left.  I'd better get to work(or is that play in the gardening world?).  Everyone have a GREAT day!  Get in that dirt! Trisha