I bought a new drill today, and I was eager to use it… and then I realized that I bought the wrong thing. I think I grabbed the wrong box by accident.
I need a drill (with screwdriver capabilities), not just a screwdriver.
THIS drill does not have enough power for me. Back to the store for me tomorrow…
Our plot of land looks so loooooong. It’s 37′-6″ x 125″, and yes my drawing is to scale. :)
I did a bit of yard work during the day. My stepmom gave me four big yuccas and a bunch of orange daylillies. They aren’t my favorite plants, but they were free! I put the yuccas symmetrically in the big dirt patch / main garden area out front. I think they could look nice mixed in the middle of other plants. The day lillies might go along the garage in the back (just past the bottom edge of my drawing).
I went to a couple of nurseries today. Everything is so expensive! Very pretty, but expensive. I saw a nice Eastern Redbud tree for $300. They’re only $30 at Home Depot, but those are much smaller. I also saw a really pretty magnolia for $700, but we won’t be buying that.
I did go back to buy some of the little flowers that I liked. They were called “Wee Willy”! I put them in a couple of little pots.
We’re having a party for Brandon in a couple of weeks (he’s turning 30), so hopefully the yard will look a little better by then. We have no patio and no furniture back there, but I think I can pull it together. We can stick our old dining room chairs out there for the day and some folding tables will look just fine under tablecloths. I’m actually looking forward to transforming the space, even though it won’t be close to finished.
I wish I could see past my thinking that annuals are a waste of money, because I really like a lot of them.
I love Dusty Miller. And how cute is it with these petite flowers at the local garden center?
I did buy some Asparagus Fern though, which is an annual here. I had some last year by the front door and it grew like crazy even when I was less than attentive to it.
The only thing Brandon and I have done outside is prepare the ground. I also planted an anemone in a pot, and it’s doing really well! Now, this is where I can trick you and show you how pretty my garden is…
But it really looks like this:
The cinder block is my favorite. So pretty.
I planted the Asparagus Fern in some hanging pots from IKEA.
They look nice on the porch, but everything still looks so dead around here. Come on spring!
I think I figured out what made me so sick. And that’s SICK, as in can’t stand up, feverish, vomiting, freezing cold while sweating under 3 blankets, mumbling incoherently, sleeping for several days, and scaring my husband I was so sick.
I was just about to fix myself a little snack, and I realized that it may have been my peanut butter. It looked a little funny last time, but I ate it anyway. You know how “natural” peanut butter isn’t perfectly smooth in consistency? That’s kind of what mine was like, except it was the fully processed “creamy” kind. Yeah, I ate it anyway (I know).
I was about to have some more tonight, but this time it smelled bad. And that would be the one food that only I ate. Awesome.
I did a little googling, and I didn’t see anything other than the recent Peter Pan recall (not my brand). I think that if it was in fact my peanut butter, I just got a bad jar. Maybe I’m wrong though – I don’t know. At least I’m better now.
