It's been a while since I blogged, but I've regained my energy & enthusiasm after such a beautiful day.

Today was the last day of hunting season for honey, and while he's not happy about it - Im thrilled!  Now the vacation is over - HAHAAAAA!  I've had lots of time to think of all the wonderful things I want to get done around the house and yard.  For starters, honey's got to knock a wall out and put my french doors in the workout room - along with a deck just outside of the french doors overlooking the pool.  Guess that gameroom will have to go somewhere else when he gets around to it.

I also did a rough draft of how I'll do the landscapping going down to & around the pool.  I went through several books and have decided on 2 small ponds, one on each side of the steps going to the pool.  Then I'll add some golfish or something.  I did love my little pond out front so I think that will be really nice.  The other lanscaping plants include azealeas, gardenias, a few tropical plants , some  purple plants that I cant think of the name of, Yucca's (strategicly placed), Junipers, Lariope, and the small purple pompass grass.  All of these are easy to grow, adapt easily & mostly evergreens....so year round color.  Yep , I got real creative with all the beautiful weather!!  I even decided where I could put some of my boulders  in the scheme

I did  get a little to antsy after chillin in the hammock, dreaming up Spring dreams.....and I attacked my Gardenia's and the trees I call Poplars .  Since they are both pretty tough cookies I dug up some nice size specimans and gave them new homes.  I lined nearly all of "the great wall of China" ...you know, the privacy fence, with them.  After spending $500 or so on cypress trees last year and all of them dying except 5 or 6, I decided not to take that route again. I know it probably wasnt a good idea to move them right now, but they've survived and thrived through so much already I figured what the heck - you cant kill them boogers.

They chickens got really antsy too.  I went to feed them and one had laid an egg in the water bowl.  Guess they couldn't wait anymore, since I closed the laying nests off about a week ago.  I told myself yesterday I'd better open them back up, but forgot to.  Not only did I have an egg in water, but I had a few in the henhouse , one in the feed dish and one just plopped in the middle of the pen. Geez - they haven't laid eggs in a good while, now all the sudden they're egg crazy.  I'm thrilled though, I was certainly tired of buying eggs at the store.