Beautiful Weekend!

Bill came up here on Friday afternoon so that we could go to the Botanical Gardens on Saturday with some friends. I’d never been to the gardens in spring – OMG it’s a different place!


Bill and I


Our friends Amanda and Rick


Azaleas


Koi pond in Japanese Garden


Foot Bridge to the island in the center of the Koi pond


English Garden


Bill talking to a screach owl.

After spending most of the afternoon outside, we stopped by the local warehouse store to replace a camping table that got burnt at Samhain and of course we walked through the rest of the store and got out just over $200! It’s something they put in the air I think – makes you want to spend money!

We got home around dinner time so we ate dinner and then were sitting outside looking at my pathetic flower garden. We had purchased a tiller the night before to try tilling some top soil into the dirt to make it more plant friendly. We decided that it was too late for that on Saturday and retired to Strawberry smoothies and bed.

So we got up on Sunday morning to tackle the flower garden. Bill dug everything up and I put it all in pots so we could amend the soil with top soil and sand (to keep it from clumping as much) and he tilled it. The soil now is rich and soft – a real treat to dig in. I’m hoping the worms like it as much as I do! I replanted everything (which was a bit droopy after sitting in the sun for a couple of hours so no pictures of the final result yet.)

We then planted my vegetable garden on the south side of the house:


My vegatable garden

Two tomato plants, two summer squash plants, and a green pepper. We will be planting the big garden down at the property this weekend. Bill is taking the tiller down to work the ground this week so it will be ready. We have plants ready to go – and will probably buy more at the nursery this weekend.

The kids are planning to come down this weekend after all – so we’ll have lots of help! :)