Wanna be green thumb employs questionable laborer’s…

First let me start with I think Mother Nature is either menopausal or trying to smite me. Either way we went from 80’s on Thursday to barely 60 and rain on Friday. Then came Saturday where once again it was barely 30 and that stupid white CRAP was falling once again!! So then we hit Sunday. Yes the sun was out however we were only mid 50’s at best. Totally unbelievable!! Needless to say we were home for once and didn’t have to run off somewhere. So we decided what better day than today to enforce some child labor, right?
After the girls went and picked out their perfect work clothes. Out to our back/side yard we went. Raking and picking up sticks.
QueenB consistently thought her rake had to be leaf free.

Wrong end their Toughie!!

Seemed to be no matter how much they raked they couldn’t keep it in a straight line. That wasn’t our thing Ms. Perfect QueenB wanted it that way.
(Note the boots on their feet ;) and they had to have their worker bibs on today. It was too cute!)

Toughie telling QueenB to do it yourself then. (Ha Ha no one bosses me around hmph)

We found so many cool things out in the yard. For example apparently we have been attacked by Woody!!

He left his mark everywhere in the back yard!! Take a look.
Here,

and here,

and here!

So then we went to go work in the garden. If you saw last Monday’s post True Confessions of a Wanna be green thumb. Here I showed off my gardens, or lack there of. I’m not going to show you what we have done so far to fix them, but I’ll just tell you we managed to weed a TON of grass from the side yard and put up the rock line in front of it. The front garden wasn’t touched at all. (poor thing) Anyway while we were digging away, we found a few things. I’m so proud of my girls for not being squeamish about gettin’ dirty or picking up things like…
WORMS!!!

He wasn’t a keeper to go fishing with so we decided to put him back. Of course that was after much convincing they didn’t need a worm in the house. I swear some days I’m raising two boys. (check the fingers!! see how filthy we were already!)

Then we found this weird little thing he is on the rock there, sorry I didn’t get a close up, but he was brick red and hard shell on one end and like a worm on the other. All in all we had a great day. We finished the rocks and most of the weeds. Hope next weekend is nice so we can plant some rose bushes and maybe some bulbs. However with Mother Nature being so wishy-washy we might have to wait a bit longer.
On a further note thank heavens for a shower in this house, or I’d have been cleaning a dirt ring for days with how much dirt came off of all of us.

Ultimate Blog "after" Par-Taaayyy

I had so much fun jumping from blog to blog this year at the UBP10!!

It was my first, and I'm soooo not finished. I plan on visiting as many as I can.

I wanted to show you three bloggers I've found so far from the list that have me coming back.



She is gonna keep my purse empty :)



She keeps me laughing :)

and last but not least
Welcome To Laurieville! Population 1.

'cuz she keeps me smiling!!

I'm sure I'll find many more that I love and I will be sure to pass them on too. Go check them out...tell them I sent ya too. Go on now go play!!!

Something personal – hope for answers

I originally had a whole idea planned out for today’s post. One with tons of excitement, bells, whistles, pure craziness, and all.

 

However it will have to wait.

 

Ok no I’m lying. I had originally planned to have my “about me” section done and ready to make it’s debut. No such luck, who knew it was so hard to write about yourself. (insert coming to you next week “the about me section”) ok ok cheesy I know.

 

Anyway one of the reasons it has been put on the back burner is I am contemplating a new business venture, plus the fact we have a road trip on the agenda today. No it’s not a mini vacay how I wish it was, I have to take the hubby to a specialist appt today. A specialist that is a little over two hour drive from us one way. My hubby has suffered for years from what has previously, and currently, diagnosed as migraines. They only issue we are having is that he doesn’t have the characteristic symptoms of migraines or any of the side affects I think you could call them.  Such as light doesn’t bother him, or noise, he can’t lay down with them, and he really is quite unbearable to be around when he has them. They cause him so much pain and are coming more frequently. Most the time he doesn’t seem to remember what happened during the worst part of the pain, or its just really foggy. We are hoping this visit can give us some insight into how his mind works a cause or simply why they happen. He can’t simply just take a pain med and it goes away either. He has to suffer with the pain for hours sometimes all day or night depending when it strikes. It makes him miserable, which of course we all know results in misery for me.I really hope we can get some answers today.

Wish us luck, lots of prayers, and fingers crossed we get some news.

Thanks,