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My mother made a sarcastic remark to me on the phone the other night that I hadn’t put any new posts up on my blog recently… true! it’s been a little slim in the news department.  I promise to try harder, Mom!

Actually, I already promised my mother-in-law that I would put up pictures of our yard and show her all the planting and construction we’ve done.  So let’s take care of two moms with one post! ha ha

Please take into account that it’s a first year yard, so much of it is quite barren.  The roses and the existing shrubs are a nice spot of colour.  Oh! and those window boxes I showed you that I planted a while back – well, they are just lovely now. We also have a couple of planters on the deck, full of lillies, since we can’t have them inside.  (Lillies are toxic to cats, and it gets very expensive when you come home to a black and white feline face with orange lips.  Trust me.  So, even though they are our favorite flower, they have to remain outside of the realm of our munchy cats.)

Click on the pictures below to see the details of the back yard.  In the far left corner I have raspberries, blackberries, boisonberries and blueberries planted, along with a couple of mounds for melons..  The far lefttree is cherry, then comes the pear in the middle (with 5 varieties on it – yum,) then the Gala apple.  In front of the shed is the peach tree, which, if the taggy on it is correct, will grow quite enormous.

So the garden is coming along.  We had a huge truck load of pea gravel dropped off today, so guess what Jrock and I will be doing tonight?  Covering up the sod I removed all along one side of the house, and between the garden beds.  It’ll look really nice and tidy when it is done, though. 

Better get off to swimming, now… just to make you folks in the colder regions jealous, here is a favorite rose picture from this morning just outside the kids’ room window.