Working Ol' Hank

Between mowing and weed eating and watering, there is no time to sit idle. With warm weather and sunshine, I can keep myself pretty occupied outside. Just don't send any company my way or I'll have to go inside and clean up a bunch. I really don't like to clean house when I could be outside planting seeds and watching my things grow. (Hubby does'nt like it much either)

Since most of our driveway has somehow dissapeared, we had a load of gravel brought in to replenish it. So, guess what I did?  I put ol' Hank to work. At least I had fun playing with the bucket, pushing it into the pile of gravel and trying not to tip over. You really got to manuver the bucket just right to pick up a nice load, keep it in the bucket, and dump it in the right spot. I think I did okay. I managed to get quite a few piles placed around the drive, then thought I would try the scraper blade on the back of Hank to see what it could do.  Managed to scrape it off the drive easier than spreading it around. So I gave up on that one for now.

Figured I'd better leave some for hubby to do or he'll tell me I put it in the wrong spots.

So I parked ol' Hank and got out the hand shovel and wheel barrel and loaded several piles of gravel into the new dog kennel. Thought it would keep them from digging as well as getting muddy every day, but they still dig. I think they like this play yard a lot better as they have more room to run around (this is a before the gravel). I'm always afraid some big hawk will swoop down and get them as they are so small so prefer to keep them safe in their pen. They are close enough to watch mom in the garden so they know they are not alone. The only thing is, they will bark to come out so they can use the restroom. They refuse to poop in their play pen. 

Many of my flowers are starting to bloom and I put out a bunch more seeds today. We are suppose to get rain again for a couple of days , but so far only really windy. I just keep watering the beds to keep the seeds in one place. Has anyone ever grown Sweet Annie? I received some seeds from a farmgirl last summer, planted them and none came up. So I am trying again this year. The seeds alone smell wonderful so I sure hope the will come up this year. I would love to have wild flowers all over the places where I really don't want to look at dried up old weeds.

This here is Allium. I really should plant more of these. Isn't it pretty? I did plant six more plants of Pinks. I just love that they smell like carnations and come back each year. I have put out a lot more bulbs, and my daughter gave me a bunch of Tulips of beautiful red that I hope to see blooming out here next Spring. I am hoping to fill this here garden area with tons of flowers and herbs with hopes of having some for drying and making poupouri. It's just a matter of seeing what will keep coming back each year that the frost won't kill off.

Wow, the wind is really blowing hard outside today. Guess I better go and water down my seeds again.