Re: everybody sleeping?

Your usual time to get up is 4:15??  ugh!  That I could not do. 6 am 
works great for me- but somehow that hour or 2 between 4 and 6 is really 
meant for sleep according to me!

Theresa

Pam Evans wrote:

>Well Theresa, Saturday I must have thought I was you.  Got up, usual
>time 4:15 - went to work, got home around 11.  Weedeated front & back,
>sprayed all my roses and the neighbor's roses, weeded the entire
>driveway - ugh.  Then just about the time I thought I could slow down
>a bit, Pat pulls up w/ a truck load of plants and lava sand for her
>new bed.  While I was helping her unload, she tells John to take down
>a big chunk of tree overhanging the bed, so we spent the next hour or
>two hauling brush and picking up sticks and stuff out of the bed.  I
>hauled the bags of lava sand over to her new bad and told her "have at
>it" and went back to my weeding.
>Got the whole herb bed (c. 16' diameter) and Tony's bed all cleaned out too.
>Moved some pots around and other minor stuff.  Boy was I tired.  Busy
>yesterday too, but not at Saturday's pace.  Had to get everything
>caught up since I'll be at Jesse's next weekend helping her get some
>of her beds weeded and spiffed up.  Even Sugar got worn out following
>mama around the yard all weekend.   I had to come back to work today
>just to get some rest - LOL.
>
>
>On 4/17/05, Theresa <tchessie@comcast.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>It's been quiet this evening!  Maybe everyone is just tired from being
>>outside all weekend??
>>
>>Well- this weekend my husband (with some help from me) managed to shovel
>>about half of the pea gravel in our back area (one trailer full and
>>seemingly about a ton of gravel).  We have wanted to get rid of this
>>forever- and a friend of his actually wanted the pea gravel and provided
>>the trailer.  We provided the muscle power- but hey, at least it is
>>going away and for free!  Next weekend we will get the trailer back
>>again and hopefully finish the job.  Then we can finally start thinking
>>about putting something useable there (plan is to put in a pergola and
>>flagstone patio underneath is).
>>
>>I am happy to say that the rest of the SpectraLock grout for my bathroom
>>finally came in- So I finished that project!  yeah.  Have to wait a week
>>to let it cure and then I want to reseal the rocks again.  In the
>>meantime I put together the cabinet for that space and need to get some
>>crown molding for the top of it.  That will be next weekend's project,
>>along with hanging the towel bars back up.  I am quite please with how
>>the whole thing came out!  I'll take some picts after it is all put back
>>together next weekend.
>>
>>I also got around to rigging up a dripline from my back yard (attached a
>>single line emitter under the corner sprinker head) down the side of the
>>house to the water trough garden.  The violas are much happier- they
>>were getting rather wilty this week without water or rain recently.  I
>>also bought another 2 ft wide section of lattice to attached closer to
>>the trough, so that the climbing rose in there can have something to
>>grow up.  I didn't get the lattice attached to the fence yet though-
>>another project for next weekend.
>>
>>I didn't manage to get to the nursery to get more green sand (I'm all
>>out) or more ladybugs.  But, I did spray my apple tree with neem (it has
>>aphids), and I did paint it's trunk white before the sun gets too
>>blazing hot!  I also thinned some more peaches off of my miniature peach
>>tree- and I'm sure I'll remove even more as they get larger.
>>
>>I think that's all for this weekend's projects!  The weather was perfect
>>and everything is growing and blooming!
>>
>>Theresa
>>
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