Another thing we DON'T like

If you know Mark and I you know we share the same feelings towards

PETS - we don't like them we don't want them!!!

Well...... One thing you may not know about Mark and I is we both have the same dislike for PLANTING things.  We don't enjoy it, we don't gain ANYTHING from it. 

The one thing we hardly ever talked about because we would always get stopped at "I don't care" is Landscaping.  Spending hundreds of dollars on plants and bushes and rock and stones is NOT something we were looking forward to and we did not enjoy it at the greenhouse the other day and we are not looking forward to buying the rocks.  At least it is a one time deal.  No planting flowers every spring for me.  I tried it in Illinois when we lived there and I had NOTHING else to do and I killed every single one of them.  

We started last night trying to get the dirt ready.  The MASS of rain has made this process very difficult to say the least.  We loosened the dirt up last night in hopes it may get a bit dry and set the stone on the opposite side of the house.  Clay dirt is fun to break up anyway but wet clay dirt well, it is impossible.

Then today I started at 2:00 breaking up the dirt we loosened up and trying to rack it.  My back and hands were killing me when Mark got home a bit before 6.  I had it almost all done, just stopping twice when I couldn't do it anymore to paint a cord on the side of the house and to put together a shelving unit for the garage.  

Then once Mark got home we work NONSTOP till 8:45.  We even served the kids dinner on the concrete on paper plates.  Nothing like hotdogs, chips and grapes for dinner.  

We got it all in.  5 Boxwood bushes, One Crapemyrtle, and 7 Stella D'Oro lily's.   Now we are just waiting for the sprinkler guys to come and add the drips and then get the rock in there.  We have picked out the rock and all 5 ton of it is set to be delivered!  

If facing the house this is the right side in front of the garage

This is the left side in front of Landries window

This is left side too, but is showed some of our grass that is coming in.

Right in front of the house on right side below kitchen window
That bush is supposed to grow big to hide those HUGE nasty white pipes sticking out of  the FRONT of our house

Winter Gem Boxwood.  I was able to keep these alive at our House in Wichita so hoping these will make it.

Ebony and Ivory Crapemyrtle - this one blooms White.  Never grow this one, but I loved the deep almost purplish leaves and the idea of the white bloom on it. 

Stella D'Oro Day lily.  I have been able to keep these alive at two different houses now so I am hoping I wont kill these.  You can't tell in this picture but the bloom is Yellow on these.


The idea with all these choices is we will NEVER have to do this again.  Maybe a bush or two here or there, but never live this.  In fact if these die we just may not replace them.  Or I will hire someone to do it.