Tomorrow is my birthday. I got my best birthday present EVER (isn't every year a new opportunity for that) on Memorial Day Monday, as my parents and grandparents drove up to my house, and spent about 5 hours lending a MUCH MUCH needed helping hand with my yard.
Since I have never had a yard before, it is a bit overwhelming for me, and they helped me set some of my bigger plans in motion. Hopefully I will be able to keep up with it now. No pictures of people working...I didn't want to distract my
slaves family. But here is some of the fruits of our labors:
The actual b-day gift to go with the yard work were 4 hydrangea bushes that I requested for my side yard. My dad planted them:
I can already picture them big and bushy with gorgeous blue flowers...and I have plans to get up and give them a good strong drink every morning to make them grow big and strong.
Mom and grandma devoted the bulk of the day to pruning, weeding, thinning out, and transplanting my front garden. It looks one billion times better. The daffodils are no longer all hidden behind the lillies, and my peony is in the sun, so it may even bloom. Its weird, but there were such an abundance of lilies, I couldn't even give them away, so some of them ended up in the trash instead of transplanted.
Dad and grandpa whittled away at my GIANT pile of brush and managed to get it down to this tiny pile I can manage to finish breaking up myself in the next couple of weeks. I forgot to take a picture, but we had about a dozen 30 gallon yard bags just full of brush and clippings on the curb for trash pickup.
They also edged, generally cleaned up, and most importantly, put together MY RAISED GARDEN BEDS!!!
(I could have done it myself, but I'm so glad they did!)
I am currently in the process of ordering dirt and peet moss delivered to go in them, and some smooth gravel/stones to make a decorative path all the way around them. The path will come out 3 feet all the way around the garden (on top of the black stuff). Each garden is 3 feet x 6 feet by 10 inches high. The first two are for my rotating veggies, the third (furthest away) is for my asparagus and rhubarb. The window boxes on the end are for herbs.
They also delivered their old patio set, which they gave to me when they bought a fancy new one this year. Pictured below is the set with only one chair, as the other chairs are holding the stuff for the gardens in place.
And so ends my description of the best birthday present yet. It was so tiring, but having them all around was totally motivating, and I am so happy to have it all ready.
Hmmmm...doesn't my yard look just right for a BBQ?
