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correctiveshoes621A little help from my friend..
I am SO impressed with Pete. There are no words.
Except, 12 forty-pound bags of mulch is really heavy.
My son is going to kvetch because I didn't buy it where he works, but, a) their website was down, and b) I saw a deal, elsewhere - $2.75 per bag! - and I took it.
But, anyway, Pete is apparently some sort of gardening/landscaping genius/savant.
We had a ball, yesterday, even in the heat - cutting the HELL out of my trees and lilac bushes. They were OUT OF HAND, but look AMAZING, now.
My son had hauled in all sorts of Stonehenge-y sized rocks/boulderettes and had simply deposited them at random in my wee front yard - beyond fabulous, but making it near-impossible to mow/trim. Pete and I took them and made this awesome stand-up sort of monument. The center piece is on end - a near-four foot diamond shape, on its end - almost exactly like THIS -
- with boulderettes all in some incredible interlocking wall around the base. It's a riot, and we didn't realize that we were doing it on the 44th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LUNAR LANDING - well, *I* did, but Pete didn't - SO. That's what it was for, apparently, though we didn't realize it, at the time.
*toasts the Apollo 11 crew with iced coffee*
My mother took one look at it, and grabbed my terra cotta angel she'd got me and set it on one of the base rocks, because, "It looks like a tombstone." Um. You do know that it would KILL HER to say something positive, but y'know..annnnnnd I really didn't feel like explaining that it ACTUALLY looked like something from the planet, Vulcan, so.....Anyway, I can't wait for my ivy to start growing around it.
Pete's on his way, with all of his equipment - he actually LOVES yardwork - !?!?! - his yard is a freakin' showplace; unreal. A haven.
A little bit o' sumden-sumden, and I like yardwork, too. Well...I like the results, anyway.
Over the years, my sisters have deposited all sorts of bulbs and flora in the front flowerbed - AND IT LOOKS LIKE HELL, ALL WILD AND UNKEMPT; A JUNGLE - and, for almost a decade, now, I've dealt with it, so as not to hurt anyone's feelings. Well, I'm over that - and told Pete that he could have any/all bulbs he wants.
All of them.
I'm all for simple mulch and a bit of white alyssum, and possibly three little, 'DEVO trees' in front -
- all I've ever wanted, and easy on the upkeep.
* If anyone knows what sort of trees the DEVO trees are, I'd be much obliged. I love them, and have always referred to them as, 'DEVO trees', but that description won't fly in the real world, I expect. :) *
I am SO impressed with Pete. There are no words.
Except, 12 forty-pound bags of mulch is really heavy.
My son is going to kvetch because I didn't buy it where he works, but, a) their website was down, and b) I saw a deal, elsewhere - $2.75 per bag! - and I took it.
But, anyway, Pete is apparently some sort of gardening/landscaping genius/savant.
We had a ball, yesterday, even in the heat - cutting the HELL out of my trees and lilac bushes. They were OUT OF HAND, but look AMAZING, now.
My son had hauled in all sorts of Stonehenge-y sized rocks/boulderettes and had simply deposited them at random in my wee front yard - beyond fabulous, but making it near-impossible to mow/trim. Pete and I took them and made this awesome stand-up sort of monument. The center piece is on end - a near-four foot diamond shape, on its end - almost exactly like THIS -
- with boulderettes all in some incredible interlocking wall around the base. It's a riot, and we didn't realize that we were doing it on the 44th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LUNAR LANDING - well, *I* did, but Pete didn't - SO. That's what it was for, apparently, though we didn't realize it, at the time.
*toasts the Apollo 11 crew with iced coffee*
My mother took one look at it, and grabbed my terra cotta angel she'd got me and set it on one of the base rocks, because, "It looks like a tombstone." Um. You do know that it would KILL HER to say something positive, but y'know..annnnnnd I really didn't feel like explaining that it ACTUALLY looked like something from the planet, Vulcan, so.....Anyway, I can't wait for my ivy to start growing around it.
Pete's on his way, with all of his equipment - he actually LOVES yardwork - !?!?! - his yard is a freakin' showplace; unreal. A haven.
A little bit o' sumden-sumden, and I like yardwork, too. Well...I like the results, anyway.
Over the years, my sisters have deposited all sorts of bulbs and flora in the front flowerbed - AND IT LOOKS LIKE HELL, ALL WILD AND UNKEMPT; A JUNGLE - and, for almost a decade, now, I've dealt with it, so as not to hurt anyone's feelings. Well, I'm over that - and told Pete that he could have any/all bulbs he wants.
All of them.
I'm all for simple mulch and a bit of white alyssum, and possibly three little, 'DEVO trees' in front -
- all I've ever wanted, and easy on the upkeep.
* If anyone knows what sort of trees the DEVO trees are, I'd be much obliged. I love them, and have always referred to them as, 'DEVO trees', but that description won't fly in the real world, I expect. :) *
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