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Saturday, 3/1 started my morning off meeting my sweet friend to get going on joint training for the 3Day-we went 7miles.  Last  week, I sold our fountain on Craig's list, had the neighbor boy dig a pond bought a beautiful shimmery orangey-red pot from Aw Pottery & had it plumbed for a fountain.  Today, all  we needed to do was level the bottom of the pond, line everything with old carpet, then the liner plus concrete blocks to support the pot (24x34) and finally place the container on those blocks-doesn't sound like much, but that pot is heavy.  We finished most of the project by dark.

Sunday, 3/2-started the fountain project after church thinking we'd be done in an hour or so-haha. We had to reposition some of the stone patio to level it out-not an easy task.  Being newly married, this project was really good for us to experience together.  I loved having him outside in the garden, he would do something that didn't need my assistance so I would plant a few things then run over to help, we worked well together-though I tend to be a bit more of a perfectionist-working on that. I also took time to hand paint round-up on every piece of lamium I found poking its leaf through the ground, normally an organic gardener, but had absolutely no remorse! We were finally ready to add water at 5pm!  It looks beautiful. So much for the supposed "2hr DIY" as the directions in the magazine where I read the article stated.

Monday, 3/3-checked on new fountain-hmmmmmmmmm water level was down 4"-bummer.  Told DH he saw it as well, but was hoping I had drained it for some reason!  (So wish I had) We finally agreed the earth had to settle and that was the cause-made us feel better at the time (denial is good).  I refilled several times throughout the morning....major bummer-down about 6".  Now we have to drain that huge pot, move it off the blocks, emtpy the pond (not huge-half circle 54x24deep), until we find the leak...not looking forward to the process. Off to my dental appointment, love getting my teeth cleaned, feels so good after.

Tuesday, 3/4-Started acclimating plants little over a week ago-wee bit soon, should have waited-but that first sunny day got the best of me.  Today the brugs are showing a lot of new growth, the plumerias are shooting new leaves and the palm leaf begonias are visably larger.  Plan to pop some more in the garden this weekend.  Some new EEs are even breaking through! My mom starts a new social class from 11:30-4:30 today..so I have free time, should clean the floors, but bet I'll putter outside after exercising!

Wednesday, 3/5-Took care of Annie today (my sweet friend's 4yo daughter w/Addison's-had seizure 1/2007-brain damaged)WoW is she getting better, started a new tube fed diet to help w/seizures and reduce meds-slow going, but she's being healed daily.  Her mom is a gardener so we discussed several options for her design at the church and I went to three nurseries to find the plants for budgeting purposes-hard work, but had to be done-haha!! It was the perfect day to be roaming around those nurseries-loved it.  Was finally able to purchase my tree fern-decided my garden could hardly hold one, let alone two(selected the one on the right under my misc.album).  They had some sort of white bug on them when they returned from the Flower & Garden show, so the nursery wouldn't let me buy it until it was sprayed, etc.  They will care for it until ready to plant 4/15!!! So exciting-it's almost 5' tall.

Thursday, 3/6-Have a class this morning, but am hoping I will get outside this afternoon. I need to make room for that tree fern!  Looks like the sun will shine all day, we had ice on the windows when I drove my daughter to school-spring weather. Okay, here it is 6:30 and no gardening was done today.  After class & running around purchasing plants for the church project w/my mom (fun though!), it started to become overcast and is now raining.  I did survey and compiled a list of things to send to Bugnut and am excited about that.

This blog is truly for my reference-my creative writing skills were only utilized when in college (lonnnnnnng time ago) or while writing a resume (lonnnnnnng time ago as well)~Andrea