Holidays TeeHee

Well, I am on day 2 of my 10 day holidays. Hubby still had to work this weekend and then we are off together after this. Katie is babysitting for the her last week full time, her last day will be Friday. She is happy about all the money that she is making. I am making her put over half away in the bank account and then she is allowed to spend the rest of it on herself. She is having fun and she is a good babysitter so at least I know she will always have work while she is a teenager.
This week we are going to go and paint my father in law's deck and garage so that the other two kids can earn some extra cash. We are going to be going to the ex, so at least they will all have some spending money.
We also want to go to the Forrestry Farm as they have some new animals, including a tiger. Would love to see that. Then we are hoping to go with friends to the lake on Saturday for one night, just to get away. Hopefully the weather will be good.
We had a doozy of a thunderstorm last night. We even got some hail. will have to go out in a bit and see if any of my plants were damaged. The only thing that I am really worried about are my pepper plants which all have little peppers on them.

More Outdoor Pictures

This is my beebalm. One of the few perennials I bought last year that actually made it to this year. Beside it that you can hardly see is a weed perennial that I had gotten from a friend. As of yesterday, it is no longer there.
This is my small flower bed. The only perennial is the rosebush and it is a funky rosebush. There is one stem that likes to grow to four feet tall while the rest of it stays small like a bush. This flower bed is next to the deck and we are thinking that maybe by the end of this summer, we will be able to afford to put a pond in.
This is one of the three of my lilies. I am exited already about the fall because my mom has decided she doesn't want to keep any of her lilies and she is giving them all to me.
This is a broader view of the back flower bed, although not all of it, just the centre section. Like I said, as of yesterday, the flowering yellow plant is gone as well as the flowering white plants. My flowerbed looks so empty now.
This is a daylily that I got for Mother's Day. I am quite proud of the fact that it bloomed this year.

Backyard Pictures 2006

These are my morning glories that came back from last year. I didn't know that they were going to come back so I ended up planting others as well. I was able to transplant some to another area and they are coming there quite well too, although they look a little skimpy.

This is one of my lilies. We have a total of three different kinds right now. I am going to be getting some more from my mom in the fall, and she has some gorgeous ones. Although I kept the little cards that came with them, they didn't make it past the winter so I have no idea what the names are.

These are of the deck from the backyard. Corey built the trellis last year from scratch. We planted four clematis last year and only two survived. We didn't know that this kind of plant grew from last years stalks and were very lucky that we ran out of time and never got to cut them back. We also never expected it to get so out of control like it did. We are thinking that we will have to cut it back in the fall to start fresh next year.

Picture of the deck from the back yard.

Backyard Pictures 2005

I wanted to post my pictures from the backyard from last year because we were so proud of it. NOW we are not. Not many of my perennials came back from last year which was really disappointing, not to mention the money we had spent. I am going to post this years pictures and hopefully get some feedback about what I can do to change things.

These are my nasturtiums that I planted from seed. My friends said I planted them too late in the season and look what happened. I ended up with mutant plants

These are my morning glories. I put about five plants there and they covered up the gas meter perfectly by the end of the season. I loved them.

This a view of the deck from the backyard.

These are the morning glories I planted. Before there had been a wild rose bush that we cut out, you can see if coming back. Also there are my sundrops which never came back this year.

My First Blog

Wow! My first blog. My friend sent me her blog all about her garden. I knew there were blogs out there, but I didn't know they could be this cool. Now I can post my pictures for my friends to see as well. I am happy about this.