SKIES ARE A LOT BRIGHTER...
Well for at least a little while...work has slowly started
All of the old sayings held true for long weekends...especially this weekend...
"Wait 5 minutes and the weather will change"
It did!
Many times!
We went from "oh my god it's SO FRIGGIN' HOT OUT HERE... and if you smile at me one more time, cause you like it, I'm gonna hit yah", type of weather
to..."what the hell it's cold/rainy enough to turn the heat back on...
to it's SNOWING!
?...that leaves only June and July that I haven't seen it snow....
I'm so happy that I wasn't away camping like most of the
AND the town was SO QUIET!!!!
The town kids like this weekend to do some "partying at the lake" so I enjoyed that part of this labor day weekend!
My plans were to plant sweat peas in the front under the awning and sunflowers along the side of the garage.
Maybe kill some ants along the way...
Sounds easy...it wasn't...as usual!
Both had to be prepped...
Under the awning I had made a walkway [2009]out of re-cycled bricks salvaged from the pile left in the back yard. The old woman that previously owned the place had placed these old bricks along the length of the garage and fence at the other side. So I had made the pattern the same...only it was too narrow and hadn't quite finished it.
The plan was to remove the bricks from the side of the garage and use them to expand the walkway...
Last weekend I got my grand kids to do that heavy stuff like breaking up the soil and removing the bricks...;)
But I did all the rest...
Which sounds easy...but WASN'T!
I liked the look so much better but wasn't quite satisfied...
Another thing that annoyed me was how narrow the walk was up to the door. The crumbling concrete slope is unfix able due to the pine tree next door [the soil is too acidic and eats away at the concrete] and is a hazard so maybe some added width on the other side?
Not to mention cutting back on the weed growing area...;}
Did I mention the rotten weather?
The 2 day torrential rain did help soften up the weed bed and I was able to sink the bricks into the muck...did I mention I love playing in the mud...;}
I must have been great entertainment for the neighbors across the street...this chubby old lady putting something on the ground then jumping on it or trying to balance on one leg...;}
Did I mention it was raining...
The snow did finally drive me inside!
And the sun did finally shine...
For, I was able to do this later...
Did manage to tucker out with only 2 more feet to go.
DIDN'T manage to get the seeds into the ground yet.....ran out of steam!
Did I mention ants?
The ants have started marching in one by one lately...
I think I live on an ant hill!
THEY! ARE! EVERYWHERE!
One of the reasons on the walkways are to stir up the colony the lives around my front entrance. I've put out bait traps but they give me no visual satisfaction. But BillyRoo found these little beauties that causes me great joy....
WARNING ANTS WERE HARMED IN MAKING THIS PHOTO!
Can't express enough my joy in seeing that!
Sorry you bug lovers...but this way is more humane on the birds who might catch the ones that carry the poison bait back to the hill...so see I'm still thinking on some ways to not harm birds.
So I managed to do some labor on labor day
Got a sore back
No seeds in the ground.....
Maybe next weekend....
Oh...I managed to get some garage sale items too...
Hope you enjoyed your time off.....;)
17 comments:
I like to harm ants every chance I get, LOL!
The weather has sucked here in West Texas too but we just missed a couple of golf games. I'll live.
;-)
Sorry about the sore back, but your post gave me a couple of chuckles. I bet it will look great once the snow stops and you can finish planting. Good luck! ;)
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