Ignore the weeds in the picture! :)
A phrase I use a lot is “I’m gonna” and being the procrastinator that I am, the “I’m gonna’s” rarely end up happening. I forget about them or just keep putting them off.
One of those I’m gonna’s has been to turn the space between my house and drive way into a flower bed. That is a year old gonna project. Before that it was to remake the two strips between the drive way and the fence into flower beds. I did that years ago, but by the following year it was over grown with grass and weeds. Two years ago I dug up what was left of the bulbs I had originally planted out there, and put those in flower pots. Last year I even got 6 rose bushes to go along those two strips. One of them is still alive and they are all still in the pots that they came in.
In the past I have been really good about rushing out and buying a bunch of flowers then sticking them in flower pots with the thought that they would be transplanted later. That never happens.
This year I am trying something different. I will make the flower bed first. Novel idea, huh? Wonder why more people don’t do that? Oh yeah, they probably do.
Instead of the I’m gonna, this year it is I will! Actually it is more of an I am, since I have already started the project.
Sunday afternoon I decided to get out there and start weeding the flower pots from last year. Seeing what, if anything survived, how many pots had fire ants in them, and how many of the pots were broken and needed to get trashed. I spent about three hours outside, and while I got some of that accomplished, I still had more to go.
Wednesday evening after work I spent another two hours outside dealing with the mess I left last year. I love that feeling you get when you start to see your work pay off. Before Sunday my front yard looked trashy. Believe me I still have a ways to go, but it is starting to look a lot better.
I’ve decided instead of spending the weekend inside painting like I had originally planned I will now be working outside. For one, I don’t want to lose the momentum I have going from seeing the yard go from crappy looking to starting to look better. Second, I know me, this is the time of year I get antsy and want to go flower shopping especially when you start seeing them pop up everywhere. If I don’t want this to be another I’m gonna year for the flower bed, I need to do it now. And last but not least, this is Texas
Unless something else comes up, I plan to work outside tonight again. I have some more picking up in the yard to do, trying to get it ready to be mowed. If I get that done before it gets dark then I will probably start working on cleaning off the front porch. It has a bunch of crap on it as well.
Friday night I plan to go to Walmart, so no working outside then. I’ll use the evening to do some food prep, catch up on my daily/weekly tasks and maybe to work on my bathroom arts and craft projects.
The weekend plan is to start removing the grass and weeds from the flower bed area as well as finish cleaning up/off the drive way. While I am working on that I will have plenty of time to think about how I want to set the area up.
Oh the possibilities!
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