Well, am I glad today is over! Ugh, it drug on forever at the office!
When I got home, though, hubby wanted to go out to dinner to celebrate his Million Mile Safe Driver Award, so we went to Red Robin. Hey, it’s close, easy, and the kids think it’s okay. I had a couple of Absolut Lemonades and the hubby had one Flat on Your Beak.
He’s decided to forego the Vegas trip. As it turns out, we wouldn’t have the money in time for the trip. I’m kind of relieved, to tell you the truth. I don’t have any burning desire to go there.
gt, although my back garden has three trees in it, the rest is sparsely populated. I have a couple few lavender plants, some plant that I can’t remember the name of, a struggling barbury shrub, and two just about dead gardenias.
Two years ago, the garden looked absolutely lovely. It was bursting with many varieties of annuals, some decorative grasses, and several other plants. It took me days to put that stuff in! I worked my ass off and fried my skin to a crisp, but it was worth it!
It’s difficult to tell in the picture, but that back garden should have really been terraced into a couple of levels. Consequently, the bark, not to mention the soil, is in a constant state of erosion.
Additionally, we were extremely negligent with our yard last year. We mowed it, pulled weeds when we saw them, but ignored the gardens. We were far too busy with the boat to bother with the yard, beyond minimum maintenance.
Consequently, I don’t really have much in the way of flowers or decorative plants in the back.
The three trees are a Japanese Laceleaf Maple, a Coral Bark Maple, and a Weeping Pussy Willow. I love the coral bark maple. It’s bark is bright red in the winter. When it first sprouts leaves in the spring, the leaves are almost a bright, limey-florescent green. The contrast between the bark and leaves is really cool looking.
My dream would be to have a landscape designer and garden architect come and do the whole backyard. Unfortunately, I do not live the life of a rich and famous person, so it will be my back breaking labor that will turn the yard into something nice. The backyard grass is doing extremely poorly because the developer’s landscapers really, really chintzed out on the top soil before they laid the sod. They should have put a several inches thick layer of topsoil on, but there’s no way they could have. The damn netting from the sod is actually poking through now!
I’d like to lay a very thick layer of topsoil down and re-sod it. Nothing like instant gratification! But, at the most, we’ll put a thick layer of topsoil down and seed the hell out of it. Then we’ll have to wait for the grass to grow again.
Bobbio, are going to be keeping the SDMB goats at your place? The reason I ask is that it appears you have a metric buttload of mowing to do at that place! It looks very comfy. Once you and the wife put your own personal touches in there, it should be very nice. I second the CEE-ment pond thing. If you’re gonna have PEE-cans, you gotta have a CEE-ment pond!
I’m sure there are many other things to address, but I’m a little tuckered out. I think I’m going to stare at the TV for awhile. I don’t even have the energy to read!
