"...a prettyish kind of little wilderness..."

I have this little corner of the yard that I have high hopes for. It is an old flower garden that has fallen into neglect. There are tons of mystery bulbs coming up this year and I am in the process of learning what they are and how to care for them. I can't wait for things to grow and bloom so I can bring my coffee out here in the mornings and sip coffee and look at the plants. I love flowers and gardening. I desperately miss a few plants I had in my old yard. I hope they are doing well!

So here are the before pics. All I have done is started the clean-up efforts:


See my cosy spot to sit and reflect?
Here are some of the bulbs, I know I have iris, cannas, and maybe some hollyhocks....
I am going to reset the stepping stones and my wonderful hubby put up that wooden picket fence for me to keep the dogs out -- They're thrilled.

Yawn.....

Ok, it's 7am. I have decided if Tom and I both get up early maybe we will both go to bed at a decent hour at night. This time change has messed us up royally! First of all, it is still light outside at 8:00 when we put the kids to bed, and then we talk, internet, mess with our basketball brackets, and watch mindless television until way too late. So, here I am in the pitch dark (well, outside it's pitch dark) at 7am. Yawn.

I have been going through the rest of the boxes and making a massive garage sale pile. The house is so messy right now with all of the boxes but the girls have a "hotel" made of empty wardrobe boxes that Tom taped together with strategically placed windows doors and rooms. It is so cool I wish I could play in it, and I almost had to cut Tom out of it!!! ;-) So if the wind doesn't blow, and it doesn't rain (rain? what's that?). We are having a massive post-moving sale the first weekend in April. Good-bye junk. Hello cash. I'll try to remember to photograph the carnage to show you.

March madness always adds pizazz around here. When we first married, we decided not to have television for our first year of marriage. We married in November. In March, Tom decided to hook our TV up to a random cord from our attic, hooked up an antennae and watched basketball for a month! Interesting. After that every year in March he would be glued to the tv watching basketball.....hmmmm. So, I decided I could gripe. I could fuss. Or, I could... start loving it too! So, every year we pick a bracket to pit against one another. Tom picks his based upon actual basketball knowledge, and I pick mine with the good ole luck 'o the Irish. Sometimes he wins, sometimes I win, but it is great fun! And, it's the only time of the year I actually try to navigate ESPN's website, I think it must be made by men! :-]

Off to sort through more junk!

I've Been Tagged!

Robin tagged me, so here goes! ;-)

If I were a shoe, I'd be a little sandal with toe marks.
If I were a city, I'd be Dallas.
If I were a season, I'd be Spring.
If I were a car, I’d be a pick-up with a dog crate in the back.
If I were a vegetable, I’d be broccoli.
If I were a fruit, I’d be a sweet red strawberry.
If I were a color, I’d be olive green.
If I were furniture, I’d be a comfy couch.
If I were a country, I’d be USA.
If I were a beverage, I'd be Coca-cola.
If I were clothing, I'd be Jeans.
If I were weather, I'd be hot and sunny.
If I were a dessert, I’d be chocolate ice cream.
If I were a plant, I’d be a daisy.

I know, I know....

Yes, it's been, like, forever, since I posted. I honestly didn't intend to take my last post so literally in the blog sense! ;-) In my defense, Tom refers to February as "the month of sickness" starting with me getting a whopping case of food poisoning and ending with the baby cutting two teeth, getting a cold and getting shots all in a 5 day period! With lots of yuck in between. Let me just say, taking your husband to the doctor praying the entire way that it isn't pneumonia (praise God it wasn't) is incredibly stressful.

We also made a sobering impromptu trip to Tennessee to pay a final good-bye to Tom's wonderful Granddaddy. He passed away last weekend and will be greatly missed. It was snowing here when we left and all but snowing there when we headed home. Weird for a Southern March, but hey, snow is cool no matter when! (If only we could have snow, but it be warm too....)

So, we are still around. And I will hopefully be a better blogger!