The forecast seems somewhat stable - here's to hoping the 30's are over.
Carter and I picked out (simple!) spring flowers for the bed in front of the house Thursday. She choose purple "Wave" petunias (because "purple's my FAVorite!").
However, the sidewalk has settled and sunk. This means that our builder Chad has to come repair it. He's going to rip it out and repour. The trouble with Chad is that you never know when this will happen. We're still waiting for our curb to be replaced from August 2007!
With the settle, we needed more dirt. The church behind us moved around a bunch of soil, so Carter and I took the wheelbarrow around back to utilize the Soil of God. We leveled out the dirt and planted our "pretties," finding a couple "friends" in the process!
Carter "helped" level dirt. I raked it to level out, then she took my shovel, heaped a pile on and dumped it on the porch. As you can imagine, this lasted about 17 seconds before we had to have a "discussion!"
After the dirt was moved and settled, we planted our flowers. Carter's gardening attire: Hannah Montana boots ("because I don't want my feet dirty") and a hat ("it's really windy outside there!").
While planting, we came across a frog (bottom to Carter's left). She wanted to keep him - I nixed that quickly.
After the frog commotion settled, I tried to take a smily Carter picture, then noticed two geese in the yard. That ended the serenity!
We ran inside for ducky bread to share with the birds ... unfortunately for them, Carter liked ducky bread, too!
Carter and I picked out (simple!) spring flowers for the bed in front of the house Thursday. She choose purple "Wave" petunias (because "purple's my FAVorite!").
However, the sidewalk has settled and sunk. This means that our builder Chad has to come repair it. He's going to rip it out and repour. The trouble with Chad is that you never know when this will happen. We're still waiting for our curb to be replaced from August 2007!
With the settle, we needed more dirt. The church behind us moved around a bunch of soil, so Carter and I took the wheelbarrow around back to utilize the Soil of God. We leveled out the dirt and planted our "pretties," finding a couple "friends" in the process!
Carter "helped" level dirt. I raked it to level out, then she took my shovel, heaped a pile on and dumped it on the porch. As you can imagine, this lasted about 17 seconds before we had to have a "discussion!"
After the dirt was moved and settled, we planted our flowers. Carter's gardening attire: Hannah Montana boots ("because I don't want my feet dirty") and a hat ("it's really windy outside there!").
While planting, we came across a frog (bottom to Carter's left). She wanted to keep him - I nixed that quickly.
After the frog commotion settled, I tried to take a smily Carter picture, then noticed two geese in the yard. That ended the serenity!
We ran inside for ducky bread to share with the birds ... unfortunately for them, Carter liked ducky bread, too!
Sure you can keep the frog......outside.
Glad to know we aren't the only ones having cement issues with our builder. Ours is just crumbling, but he likes to tell us it is solid.
Maybe our development is built upon one big sink hole! Bastards!