Here is the before of our patio...a friend just gave us the umbrella! She found it at a garage sale and thought of us. Thank you Susan! It is nice now to have some shade in the morning sun. The green chairs at the table were given to us years ago by my sister. Every couple years we paint them. I am not sure why I chose green the last time...I must have been going through a melancholy phase.
Here they are now. I was really in the mood for color! Craig also did the table to the left. A nice bright red! He thinks he should do the round table...tape it off and do all those colors on it. I think that would be way too much work....there are more important things to do around here.
He also freshened up Liam's little chair...I just love all this color! Oh...I might have said that already.
Last year was the first year that anything was done under this window other than the bleeding heart. I had impatients planted here...and they did very well and grew out far enough to cover up the fact that there really was no border. This year there is finally an official border! I love it. I am utilizing one of the plants that was supposed to have bloomed in time for the wedding, but didn't. These are forget me nots that feel as though I forgot them...they sure are looking sad in their little pots. I have never grown them or really seen them so I am excited to see how they do.
It sure takes time to get things where you want them. We moved into a blank slate in back and landscaping in front that was put in so poorly it all died. Section by section we are slowly working our way through every inch of this property and turning it into what we (Craig would say 'who..you and frog in your pocket) want. He thinks I am taking up entirely too much real-estate on food and flowers.
I will leave you with a Liamism: He is doing some changing lately. For the better! He has never been a very cuddly little man. And he has never been good about telling me he loves me though he says it readily to Craig. But lately he has gotten very...clingy may not be the right word....but wanting me close to him. And he tells me he loves me without me saying it first! Today at dinner he was acting and doing so many grown up thing. I always tell him that I will be so sad when he is a big boy and can do things all on his own. Today when I said that he took my hand and held it to his cheek and said "I will always be your little boy mommy." Oh my oh my be still my beating heart!! Precious!
It sure takes time to get things where you want them. We moved into a blank slate in back and landscaping in front that was put in so poorly it all died. Section by section we are slowly working our way through every inch of this property and turning it into what we (Craig would say 'who..you and frog in your pocket) want. He thinks I am taking up entirely too much real-estate on food and flowers.
I will leave you with a Liamism: He is doing some changing lately. For the better! He has never been a very cuddly little man. And he has never been good about telling me he loves me though he says it readily to Craig. But lately he has gotten very...clingy may not be the right word....but wanting me close to him. And he tells me he loves me without me saying it first! Today at dinner he was acting and doing so many grown up thing. I always tell him that I will be so sad when he is a big boy and can do things all on his own. Today when I said that he took my hand and held it to his cheek and said "I will always be your little boy mommy." Oh my oh my be still my beating heart!! Precious!