Three hours of yard work makes for a very tired body. I don't know how we could have had so many twigs & sticks scattered about; I kept thinking one of the three little pigs could build his own fortress six times over no doubt. I am still a novice yard person; one of those neighbors who tinkers in her yard with grand hopes of landscape design but only achieves a simple look and hopes the expert gardener-neighbor doesn't feel too bad that she has to look at my lawn of dreams. This is our third spring in this house and my third year at tending to our first yard so it's a learning experience, every season all over again. That know-it-all neighbor on the cul de sac seems to have the greenest thumb and I know as she gazed over often at my work this afternoon that she felt I could have been doing it another way but all the sticks are bagged and bundled, my way. Do you have a neighbor like that? If not, just nod your head ... it helps. Anyhoo, how does she know I don't have a dress like this that I wear when I adorn every huge vase in the house with flowers from the garden while still having perfect hair?
Making progress on be kind & be true; I fussed and fussed over the couple's hairless heads. The arms bothered me but not as much as their little bald heads so hair they soon had. Not too pleased with the gentleman's locks so might give him a redo. I changed the color of her dress to make her stand out more and I like it. This design is a treat to work on.
I think that's it for me tonight. Pushing midnight and methinks I need one more ibuprofen so I can move my arms in the morning. Here's to a stick-less yard ... until next time. Cheers!
11 comments:
Oh, don't even talk about the yard work. My husband picked this house out so he wouldn't have to mow grass as he did for years before.
I miss grass.......
but I try to have lots of roses going along the side of the house and they were beautiful until last spring I was weeding them and getting the leaves and twigs out and saw a baby snake and oops, that was over for me. Cause I knew there was a mama snake around somewhere and I left my DH in the rose garden while I said "honey, I don't care if they grow up to the roofline, I'm not sticking my hands back down there! And so our little bit of organized yard in the forest remains pretty ragged right now. My hubbie is definitely not a yard person.
At my house before though, I had a neighbor like that and I was always planting and actually enjoyed it but I wasn't in the woods either then.
Jennifer
We are novice yard workers too Tanya, and because the outside of our house isn't renovated yet we use that excuse to let it go! We have one, or should I say several, of those neighbors. But, they cheat! They use a lawn service so their yard work really isn't any better than mine!
We had some guys come the past two years and mow, clear the leaves, etc and I miss them!!! We decided to save the money and do it ourselves this year ... why again? LOL
Tanya
Yard work? Houswork? To thine ownself be true, I say.
Elizabeth
To me it's yardWORK. We have a small yard (1/4 acre) and I wish we had a postage stamp yard. A gardener I'll never be.
Yard work is a muscle killer but when its all done..ahhhh...the beautiful progress you made~~~ I had tried to email you a couple photos of finishes I had done with your charts....but, it bounced back to me.... could you look at my blog and email me so I can send them to you?? I love doing up your pieces~~ Faye
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I vividly remember the neighbors acorss from parent's house in my growing-up years. Scowling from their windows at our feeble attempts at a green lawn. Their whole family would be out there from dawn to dusk nit-picking at every blade of grass...not a dandelion in site. While our yard was filled with toys and dolls and the little "villages" we built by digging up patches of grass and making little dolly cabins out of the sticks. A total mess by the neighbor's standards, but we had a lot of fun. The only thing that urked them more then our lawn was when we got out the huge pieces of chalk and drew all over the street. Peasants!!!
We had far too many people like that in our neighborhood in Gouda. Only they didn't hold back with "looks" but actually came over and told me off about our garden! I don't miss them at all. Our current yard - about 3 acres!! - needs to be de-sticked again. I'd done the most important part after a bad windstorm, but it needs more attention. We aren't expecting the impossible - the grounds have been completely neglected for about a decade, so there's more moss than grass, LOL, but we're hoping to slowly start bringing it back to its old glory.
Try living next door to a landscaper! If I had 5 guys working on my yard it would look great too. Sometimes I think about asking what he would charge to work on my yard, then I come to my senses and spend my money on my cross stitch!
Thinking positively, a lot of gardeners are really friendly and love to share plants! You never know, she may be waiting for an opportunity to offer something....or am I being my usual Pollyanna, lol!?
Some of the most striking gardens are the simplest ones! And any true "gardener" will offer to help a neighbor out!! I have plants in my garden from a few houses around the neighborhood and we are always talking and sharing ideas!
BK&BT is looking lovely!
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