gardening

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mom's.  in case your kids never tell you, you are appreciated greatly, even though they may not tell  you now, they will when they are 28, and yes, they will be 28 some day :)

so as you know it's that wonderful time of the year where everyone starts planting flowers.  this year we did something different, well, actually a lot different.  mom showed us a cool catalog that had some different bulbs and plants and other fun stuff.  so we got a butterfly/hummingbird garden that is bulbs, and they come back every year.  so it was a great deal, we ended up with 40 some plants for $45.00, what a deal, then the ladies put in some money, so i had a total of $108 to spend on flowers.

the plants came in the mail last Saturday, so of course we had to plant them.  we were a little skeptical, especially when someone asked me which end was up, i told them to plant them sideways (lol, not really).  this week we were out there looking and some of the bulbs were coming up already!  we were stoked and relieved, knowing that it was going to come out okay.

then for the next fun project i decided i would like some edging around our little flower garden it's like 12 feet long and maybe 5 feet wide, but thought brick edging would look nice, you know the scallops?  so we bought 25 of them thinking that would be plenty.  we were like 4 short!  ugh, but fortunately someone was going back to Wal Mart, so we were saved.  so last night we wanted to finish it, and didn't know how to break some of the bricks to make them fit.  i thought, hmmm, we have a hammer and a flat head screw driver, so we should be able to break them that way.  well, i tried, didn't get very far and decided that wouldn't work.  then one of the ladies came and said "here, this is what we need to do, i'll stand on it with the last scallop hanging off the step and you hit it with the hammer and it should break."  we bowed our heads in prayer for a brief moment, then went to work.  and guess what?  it turned out beautiful!  absolutely perfect!  we were so excited that we would get to do it again.  and now we have enough bricks for the garden.  it took so much work to do it, so many trips out to the road to make sure they were even, and we got tired of digging, so i started stepping on them to make them go down instead of digging and it worked!  we decided that we would have a side job for landscaping!

had all the ladies pitch in to help mulch around where all the bulbs were and it looks wonderful.  now we just have to wait for the bulbs to grow!  it's gonna be beautiful!