Fences, Flowers, & Fun

Sorry for my absence. I pretty much only visit my computer once a week--it can't take much more =). We've been plenty busy around here. There simply are not enough hours to get it all done.

It was a wonderful birthday with such thoughtful words and more from family and friends. Thank you all. I am being negligent and not posting pictures, but I have them on my phone.
There are beautiful flowers in my living room and a hummingbird feeder hanging by my porch so I can see it from the kitchen. There are sweet pinwheels in my indoor plants and oh so much more.

On the weekend, our new fence came in. It was delivered on Friday (late afternoon). It is a scalloped white fence. After a few hiccups (those always happen), Josh began working. Hiccups like not being able to rent the post hole digger (gas powered) because they were out and it is way too big to fit into a car. We remedied that by purchasing a manual post hole digger at Lowe's--more muscle work-out for Josh. Another hiccup...the design computer failed to do the right thing and the posts for the fence did not come with hardware for mounting the panels (yes the hardware is vital). Since these are special order, there weren't any at the store, however a nearby store had some.

My gut told me that he should start digging the post holes and then setting them. I knew that the trip and hassle of what we had to do to get them from another store would take TONS of time...

Sunday was supposed to be busier as we were going to lunch with some people from church. Well, they couldn't go ad then Josh got a call that the local store magically got the hardware that we needed on a truck that very day! IT saved a HUGE amount of time. I was so glad to go with my gut on that one.

Josh worked his tail off and completed our new gorgeous fence. We LOVE it!! The backyard feels like a new place. Now I have the bug to do some changes and maybe add some flowers since we love to spend time there. Oh yeah, did I mention that we have now approxiately removed 70 bushes from our yard. Only three remain--two lilacs and one quince. I got tired of constantly manicuring and trimming the bushes. No more...they are gone!

Flowers are in at the greenhouses!!! AAAAAHHHHH!! I purchased many over the weekend and planted while Josh dug fence post holes. It truly feels like summer. The April weather here ROCKS!!!!! It's like Florida spring and I am so GLAD!!!

I will post my pics to Facebook so if you are my friend there (which I'm sure almost all of you are) check there.

Happy SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!