Weekend Fun

I'm so far behind in blogging ........ this was our weekend. No quilts but lots of other family fun.

In early June I blogged about our landscape work. I'm happy to say that the new plants are doing pretty good in the rock garden.





That is all are doing well except for the transplanted hosta ..... poor things.




SUNDAY
After Sunday Mass we attended the goodbye luncheon for Fr. Das where roasted pig was served. He is such a joy and we are so sad he is leaving after only a year with us. On the other side of the coin he nows has his own Parish. As Fr. Das is so fond of say ..... "PIG IS LIFE"


I took my famous weight watcher strawberry pie ........ all 18 slices were gone in less than 15 minutes. Yummy

GS and SIL checking our all the other desserts.

GD#2 and Fr. Das

DH (who is an ordained Deacon) and Fr. Das

The Parish gift for Fr. Das ....... beautiful

PUPPY

AND meet Oreo ...... GC's new puppy. A Mountain Feist .... purchased at a garage sale.

Friday night was Family Night at the Club. Lots of yummy foods and tons of kids. It was really a fun evening.

GD#1 and a friend (Chris) from school during the swim break.

Saturday morning fun. Took GS to Home Depoe's make-it-take-it ...... this month was a sailboat. Where else do you sail .... why in Nanny & Pappy's fish pond, of course.

Meet Tippy ... Shiz-Shiz .... GC's other doggie




That's it for this past weekend .......

Landscape So Beautiful

Hello ............ this is our home in the spring of 2002.




We moved here in 2002 and for 6 years I've hated the landscape. Since I'm not an outdoors person I just kept saying .... "next year we'll do the landscape work". Then in Dec. 2007 we had a water line break which caused water to leak into our family room. The water line broke out next to the street. There's nothing like not having water over the Christmas holiday ....... yes there's nothing like it.

The broken water line was under our concrete sidewalk ..... So bright and early Dec. 31 (our 41st wedding anniversary) the plumbers were able to fit us into the schedule .... we spent the whole day together. If you're interested the whole story is further down in my blog.

So my saying "we'll do the landscape next year" ....... that year arrived 2008. I wanted to get rid of everything but DH loves those Christmas trees (as I call them) so we kept them. Our SIL, Shaun, did all the work for us .... aren't we lucky. YES.

River rock we love so he brought in 6 ton and covered everything. Did you notice how I changed the layout with that nice curve.

The we shopped for some plants and a huge pot of pre-planted flowers. We spent 3 hours planting day lily, hosta, oriental grass, creeping jenny, portulaca and some nice decorative rocks.

We had tons of Iris in the front too .... so I had Shaun move them to a little corner garden with Mickey & Minnie Mouse in the backyard. I do hope they survive.



We also have a very large fish pond in the backyard .... compliments of the former owners. It was so overgrown you couldn't see the water or fish (koi and gold fish). So DH tore out a lot of the old plantings ... now we have a nice view.


The pond has a beautiful waterfall but unfortunately it's in the shade and difficult to get a photo.



This is a Siberian iris (thanks Vicki). It grows inside the pond and returns bigger every year. I think this year we'll have to separate it after the season is over.




That's all folks .............. have a GREAT summer.