Gnome, Past Rock Bed, New Rock Bed, 9 Weeks, Family, and Kitty Love

 Seems like feeling better

sure can have me jumping back

into what I like to do.

A friend gave me these gnomes, 

unfinished, so I painted this one.

Now, I only have to seal this

baby so I can put it

in the yard next spring. 

I have another one, tad more

detail on it so I picked the easier

one to paint first. 

But I will have them both

ready for the yard come 

springtime.

You prob remember me fixing 

this section up. 

I blocked off a good area by

larger rocks then filled it in

with rocks. I don't ever use little

rocks on my yard decor but around 

here actually digging up grass, making

a bed, then filling it in with bags 

of soil. This my friends, I thought

might be easier. At this point,

I am not really sure which is which. 

But moving on with this part

of the post....

having a rock bed here was

not the best of ideas. I placed 

cardboard down to kill 

grass, covered with rocks,

put plates up next to the porch

and placed pots of plants on 

the rocks. The plates are a cool 

way of adding a back border.

But in this case, it was a fail

in this case. Weeds, not grass made

its way up behind the plates and having

the border rocks here made it

hard to ride the mower through

this area. 

I decided that moving the rock 

bed out where there is more

area, a better idea.

So, I made a bed on the other

side of the walkway. And here,

I can mow around it better. 

I placed my lamp pole

in the center, leveled it up 

and placed a pot in there, I also

placed a colorful plate in 

there till I figure out where

I will end up putting them for

good. Removing them from the 

porch will make weed eating 

easier on those weeds that

come up in that area. 

I will place a pot or two 

in the spring but I hope to 

have some more beds going

at that time also.

You see the corner of the house, 

right in front of the porch there is 

where the rock bed was, but to 

use the rock again, I had to move

the rock. I had a blue large pot 

that I would fill 1/2 way and slide

it across the sidewalk to pour in 

this area. Oh, most important thing,

to really piss the weeds off, I laid

plastic!! Normally, I do not do that

on a regular flower bed cause the roots

have to be able to reach out and 

spread out in the dirt. But since there

is not free standing plants being 

placed here, no root room was needed.

Hoping the plastic table clothes 

I laid down will do a good job.

Anyway, trying to make the yard

look good, but in the mean time,

make life easier for me.

Just in case the thought has not 

hit you yet, read this...

Saturday night Amber and 

Will invited me to dinner.

Burgers and fries.

Nice visit.

I was going to stay and 

play games but I worked 

outside on the rock bed earlier

that day and I was tired. 

Finished that up on Sunday.

Evie, Hannah, 

and baby Beckham who is waiting 

his time to join us on 

the outside.

Sunday morning mommy and 

kitty loving. 

As I was working on this

post Sunday evening, I had to take

a break, cause Misty needed her 

mommy and kitty loving,

for the evening!

Now, I sit and watch her knock

the pumpkins off the table.

haha

is she going through the 

terrible fours!??

Lily Bit is in her

regular place, the back of'

the couch. 

Have you had any kitty loving

lately?

Pam