Good Morning!

DH had a 4 day weekend and we worked out in the yard for most of it...

I did ok the first 2 days...

slowed up big time the 3rd...

and couldn't move much the 4th...

the trailer that the kids were in and trying to fix up...

burnt one night last week...

arson...

and we slept through it...

and a group of us confronted a trouble making neighbor...

let him know that the lies stop here and none of us are believing anything...

(he's been telling fibs on each of us to the others, trying to cause fights)

but we aren't falling for that...

even said he was suing me for texts I never sent to people I don't know...

claiming they are the reason he lost his mowing jobs...

( he lost them because he isn't good at it)

green beans here and a purple leaf sand cherry behind...

we planted 3 more of the purple leaf sand cherry bushes here...

and 2 more on each end of the rose garden...

(they were on sale at Walmart and Craig just grabbed them and brought them home)

$1 each and we have 6 now...

and then there is 2 other bushes...

called  Loropetalum- 'Carolina Midnight'

and they are a purple leaf bush with blooms...

and over the weekend the field popped up behind us...

we haven't had enough rain at one time yet to see if the drainage is really fixed or not...

only time will tell on that...

we are holding off working on the north side of the house until then...

there is much to do in the rest of the yard anyway...

:)

I can't believe how fast the warm weather months are going by...

and there are more plans in the works around here before it turns cold again...

the plans I made last winter hit the trash can early on...

:)

and still with all the set backs and reworking ideas that we thought were good before...

its all turning out better than we could have imagined...

even with the crazy neighbor and the arson...

Craig scored some really good deals for the yard...

and we have some more plans to expand the rose garden area as time moves on...

and the plants get bigger...

kicking around border ideas and have decided to just wait and see what goes on sale...

and just rolling with all the punches...

Craig's car threw a belt last week and DH had to go in and pick him up after work...

he's been driving our van to work all weekend and left us afoot...

so we couldn't get out to eat or shop...

which is ok...

got a lot of yard work done...

DH went back to work this morning and Craig has today and tomorrow off...

so its working out so far...

his car should be done today...

the clutch went out on his ac unit...

that can be a little pricy, but he has more than enough in savings to cover it...

so nothing to panic about...

so that's what we have been up to...

nothing exciting and no beach lounging here...

:)

just dirty knees and sore muscles...

have a great week!