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April 23, 2010

The Yard - Before

I think I mentioned last year when we bought the house that I am NOT a gardner at all. I know nothing about plants and the few that I've tried to plant inside in pots and outside I've managed to kill :o( So there was no way that I was going to take on the challenge of making the yard look nice on my own. I actually attempted to plant a few things last year and I did not enjoy it but then you have my neighbor who's out there all summer and see's it as a stress reliever. I think I got more stressed, haa, haa.

Anyway, last year we did the kitchen and this year we'll focus on the yards. The backyard is going to be done in stages because I"m sure it won't be cheap so we'll take it a little bit at a time. The front yard is much smaller and we aren't putting too much out there so hired a gardner and he started last weekend. We initially hired him to clean out the weeds in both the back and the front but then he told me if I just went and picked up all the plants at Home Depot he'd put them in the ground for us. YAY!!! They finished doing the work last night and we love it. It makes our house look so much prettier. The challenge now will be not to kill the plants but I think I can handle watering. I'm so happy with the way it looks that that's motiviation enough to get me out there with the hose.
Here is what it looked like before and later today I'll take pictures of the after.



April 08, 2010

Bad Hair Day

I don't typically have Patch groomed at the groomers because he's always been easy to deal with at home but his fur has gotten a little out of control recently and since he needed his nails trimmed I decided to take him and Daisy in today. I don't like Daisy's hair short but it tends to get too wild especially around her face if it's too long so I have her done every few months. At one point we attempted to do it and that didn't go so well, it's not as easy at it looks.

Daisy looks cute

BUT

I'm not so happy about Patch :o( I was hoping he'd look like this. Short hair on the body and long hair on his ears and tail.


but instead he looks like this


They took his ear hair off :o(