Adventures in D’Ma Land

May 15, 2011 by Ruth 6 Comments

*This is a re-post since Blogger decided to eat it and not give it back. 🙂

 Lately I’ve had a few other interests besides blogging and reading about religious stuff.  I’ve been landscaping around my heretofore barren yard.  I made some pinch-pleat drapes for a friend whose husband owns a wholesale plant distribution business.  So…we bartered.

I got  five Yellow Knock-Out roses, eight ‘Purple Diamond’ loropetalum, four  ‘Emerald Snow’ loropetalum,  three ‘Blushing Bride’ hydrangeas, and three spirea ‘Vanhouttei’.  Oh, and four plumbago.  I think it was a pretty good swap. 🙂

This is what my pathetic back yard looked like before…just two pitiful little miniature rose bushes planted in a horrible locale.  In my defense I thought these were climbing roses that I intended to work into that hideous lattice.  Not so much.

Now it looks like this…

 

This was my much neglected, embarrassing garage area.  You know, the part people see when they pull up to my house.  It looks so sad.

Except for my grandgirl, Carmen, of course!  🙂

It’s a happy space now, though…

I dug every hole myself, laid every inch of landscaping fabric, and put out all the pine straw. I received the plagues of first ants, then mosquitoes and worse yet, armadillos.  Anybody know a humane way of getting rid of armadillos?  They’re digging up my yard.  I’m kind of proud of my handiwork, though.  And my legs now look super duper sexy with all these ant and mosquito bites.

This I’m not so proud of.  It’s what happens when I’m trying to be lazy and get juuuust as close to the pond as I can.  Lesson of the day:  Mowers don’t work well in water, just in case anybody else out there needed that kind of advice. 🙂

I have at least one more interest, but that’s for another post entirely! ;~)