Sweet Death

Death of a Sweet Broom plant that is. it's been almost 2 weeks since we planted them and there is one that is not doing so well. we thought he'd perk up. but he didn't. then he appeared to be only mostly dead and we were hoping he'd have some truly noble reason for hanging on. but apparently not. so now we're going to have to go back to home depot and hope they still have some of those so we can exchange it. although, according to my mother-in-law who apparently frequents home depot, they rotate their stock quite often so chances are we won't find the same plant. in which case, what the hell is the point of them having a 1 year guarantee? well i suppose you could make them order it in couldn't you? we lined them up next to the sidewalk, so we'd either have a big gap where it used to be or have to dig them all up and replace them all. which would be a huge pain in the ass. so yeah, i think i'd make them order it in. good idea. just in case it's not there anyway.

i have 2 rosebushes to plant this weekend that my husband got me the other day. a pink one and a red one. i've never planted roses so i read the directions and they are different. i have to soak the roots in water and build a little mound inside the hole to spread the roots out on. which actually sorta makes sense, but it'll take more work than everything else we've planted so far. and i have some bulbs i need to plant too. i forgot what they are. something with purple flowers and something with orange and white flowers.

and then we have to kill weeds. it's been hard to have the time to spray weed killer stuff cuz it's been so windy. i managed to spray some yesterday when i got home from work cuz it was only a little breezy. but we're going to have to mow them down. now how come in the 2 weeks that our bushes have been planted, the weeds have grown to about 6 times their height and there is no noticable difference in the plants??? some weeds are taller than the little bushes now!! especially around the bushes since they are getting water now.

and we have to work inside the house since it's only about 4 weeks til school is out and the kid moves in! time goes by so fast when there is a deadline! stuff did get moved out of her room last week, so it's getting closer. i still need to get all my crap out of her closet so she can use it. i have shelves in my shed now, so i can move a bunch of stuff out. then i have to paint her room. well, just one wall, so that'll be easy. hahahaha!!!

Here comes the rain again...

And we have boards in the back for our gate getting wet. We just bought them last weekend and hadn't had time to seal them yet. Since for some dumb reason, Lowe's doesn't sell wood that is obviously meant for fences...or gates...or other outdoor use that is treated! How dumb is that? So anyway, it started raining last night and I totally didn't think about it, but then my husband called me this morning cuz he had just realized our wood was outside getting rained on. So I'm going to run home at lunch and bring it into the kitchen to start drying out.

I have returned!

Wow, ever so much has happened since i last wrote. I got married, have a kid (stepdaughter..but still...). Wow! So I got married last month. I'm still working on changing my name on everything. That's been the hardest part. We just had a small ceremony at the courthouse, lunch at Capo's Italian Restaurant and then we went away for the weekend. My mom thought we should have a reception, so she took care of all that and we had it the next weekend. Then my grandma died. She actually had a stroke the day before we got married then passed away exactly 2 weeks later. So that was very hard. Talk about emotional roller coaster! But my husband was such a great comfort to me and really helped me get thru this. I just can't thank him enough!

We've been working on the house and yard to get it ready for the summer when we move his daughter in. we're still going between our house and his mom's house so we didn't have to pull her out of school. Trying to keep up on the weeds so they don't get overgrown like they did last summer. Moving furniture around to make room for the kid in the other bedroom. That's the computer room and junk room right now. so junk needs to come out, computer needs to come out. so all that is going to be out in the living room. i'm getting rid of crap little by little. i've actually hauled off a good deal of stuff. donated some to the thrift store. thrown some away. it's coming along. still have a ways to go....and only two months to get it done til the end of school. oh and the backyard has to be ready for the dogs to come live with us. we have one more gate to build and then i think it's ready. but with all the stickers from last year's weeds, it won't be ready yet. i don't know how we're going to clean them all up. they are probably going to be around for a while. but i guess the dogs will have to live there anyway. oh and we're ordering a bunch of bushes for the backyard, so we need to get the holes dug and all that for them cuz they are bare root and need to be dropped right away when we get them home. so we have a Lot of work ahead of us in the next couple weeks just on the yard itself. blech....