We all love pretty flowers & blooms in the Spring, don’t we? But, along with enjoying those beautiful blooms comes the maintenance & upkeep. This is what happens when you wait until January to tackle all the leaves that fall from the trees. About a million leaves that need to be moved out of the beds & grass into the back area of the yard.
This fun chore is what we are up to this week, as the weather is in the 70’s. Perfect for working outside in the yard. Peter is raking, blowing & hauling leaves on the tarp.
And I’m talking to Mia, the other neighbor’s dog next door to us. We are surrounded by dogs. Mia always comes over to the fence when I’m out working in the yard.
Now, just in case you think everything about our house is beautiful….let me assure you it is most definitely NOT! Welcome to the mudpit. This will be a before pic & come spring, Lord willing, it will be a different story. I’ve wanted to work on this eyesore for 2 years now, so this is the year. This is underneath our deck & it’s high enough to walk under, so could definitely work as a patio of sorts. Right now it’s a mud magnet. All the water that falls through the deck ends up under here. You can see our wonderful Southern red clay. It’s hard as a rock. And when I turn on the hose that is under here, water gets everywhere.
See my pretty black swing. It’s hard to get inspired looking at what’s under the deck. My plans are to put a pretty paver & pea gravel patio under here. I’ve seen it done & it’s really nice looking & should be economical to do too. I don’t really care about having it really fancy, since we would most likely use the deck more when it gets screened in eventually, but this will get rid of the mud & be a nice place to enjoy some shade. I need to find some inspiration pics to get a plan started. I would love to add a winding flagstone walkway over to our side gate too. So hopefully that is what I’ll be working on in the next few months.
The Not-So-Fun Part of Gardening
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Haha, if you wait until January around here to rake leaves, you’ve waited until April, cuz they’re all covered with a thick white layer of snow right now!! There are always so many leaves to rake up in spring here anyway (I’m not sure how it happens, but that’s the way it is!), I don’t bother doing much of it in fall anymore.
There is a BIG difference between gardening and yard work. I love to garden but I don’t much care for yard work, and you have been doing some major yard work. I need to do some as well. I love formal cut headges so of couse I planted like a total of 100 headges that I always have to trim. I told my husband just slap me the next time I say lets plant a cut little headge!
That is exactly what it looks like under my porch. Rocks, hard dirt and all. I can’t stand it! I can’t wait to have a patio where I can sit in the summertime.