outside

Well, the weather is nice. So I guess it's time to admit that the outside of my house looks icky. Not the house itself, of course (at least I don't think so), but the yard needs serious help.

Normally, the outside of the house is my husband's domain. Yard work is in his contract, not mine. But, making things pretty is in my contract, so I have some work to do.

I started with a trip to the Home Depot on Thursday. I have 2 flower boxes for the back deck, and I wanted 2 more for the front porch. I also have 2 urn-like planters on the patio by the pond. So, I needed to buy enough dirt and flowers to fill all of those. Well... here's where I have no sense of anything. I bought what I thought was a big bag of dirt, but it was not nearly enough. I bought what I was hoping would be enough flowers, but there were far too many. idiot.

So, on Friday, The Babe and I were planting the flowers in the pots when I realize I have too many flowers and too little dirt. The Boy was busy running all over the yard yelling at the birds. You should have seen me scrounging in the garage for any kind of pot that I could use as a planter... luckily, I had enough old pots. A last minute trip to Costco for more dirt and we have SO MANY flower pots all over the yard and front of the house.

I guess it looks pretty, so I did my job... but man, it's way more than I bargained for.

Maybe next year I will remember this. Probably not.