Time To Let Go

Things have been busy, and it's been a good busy. We have pooled our energy and started tackling some huge projects this past week, things I have purposely ignored and with good reason. We finally pulled out a bunch of very large bushes, small tree's, and a lot of what was in between. For the first time ever, we are seeing some blank canvases in the gardens and it's exciting, but I'd be lying if I said it's been easy. My body is sore, tired and already has it's first tan line. 

This garden is bigger than I originally thought. We pulled a walnut tree, another ugly something, two large fushia bushes, and a large bush of some sort. We lost just about all our privacy from the living room, but that will soon be fixed. We planted our new winter rose, Pink Frost Helleborus. It was a gift from my husband to both of us for our anniversary. It was happily planted and now we get to plant around it. Still a lot of work to be done here..

The fact that all this major work is finally being done, means two things. For starters, it's amazing to have a husband who is dedicated to a good garden. The knowledge this man has from his days on the farm is priceless.  Second, all this time I have been trying so hard to save some of the gardens and bring them back to their former glory, the award winning garden it once was. I learned that the former owner made wine out of the grapes that grow in the back, so I suspect she was either drunk a lot and did good gardening that way, or she hired help. Either way, I have decided that it's just time for a lot of it to go. It's too hard to live another's vision, Mark and I want our own. Hopefully this way it will be even more successful, because it will truly be ours. Short of the winter rose, I'm going to finish pulling up all those other plants and flowers.

 Here's a close up of the flower, Helleborus Pink Frost. I wasn't familiar with this before, but I am over the moon in love with it! I think it's happy in it's new spot. We have been talking about re-graveling too, something I would LOVE to do, but holy back breaking work! The positives outweigh the negatives.

Ahh, garage sale season. A few weeks ago, I was given a request. Someone wanted a small, boxy type thing that could easily be concealed and locked. I saw it as a challenge, and set out early in the season for some hunting. I honestly thought that it would take all season to meet all the listed desires, found this piece for $3. It's mostly real wood, the door is in good condition, and it's overall a sound piece of furniture. Now I get to make it manly. I can't wait to get my hand sander out, something about being covered in saw dust. It's exciting. I'll give an update! It's suppose to rain at the end of the week, that might be a good time to get these projects checked off, like my growing pile of sewing projects.