There and Back, up and walking #1

[SallyM]

thanks donna. right now h still deposits his whole base salary check in "our" acct and that is the money I use. he also gets a commission check which is what he's been living on. I know that is going to change with the DA though. the bonus check he just told me about because his company direct deposited it into our acct. if he takes it out, he takes it out, if not, well, it will stay until we divide along with the other assets.

I love love love the idea of giving the kids a corner of the garden to plant as they wish. very nice. my landscaper just did a spring cleanup and everything looks sooo nice and ready to bloom or to be filled in with new plants. may let the kids do something in a corner. they will love it! actually, instead of in the beds, think I'll get some big pots and they can each plant one out and we'll put them on the porch.

I've seen that sweet pea teepee thing...very cute. if you get it, let me know how it turns out. I loooove sweet peas. I love any fragrant flower. in fact, I'm finally going to plant roses here. I have in past houses, but haven't here for some reason. I love real roses, the kind that actually smell. don't get me wrong, florist ones are very pretty, but there is something about ones fresh from the garden that actually smell like roses that are 10x nicer.

speaking of nice smelling flowers, I have 6 huge lilac bushes that have lovely little buds on them right now...can't wait!

see, so many good things!

I have 2 boxes for my kitchen garden I need to figure out how to keep the freaking woodchucks/bunnies/other creatures from eating this year. I don't know how they get up onto the boxes, but I had the most beautiful lettuce last year that was destroyed before I even got a leaf. sigh. same with sunflowers. for some reason I can't get them past the just starting to shoot stage.

now that I have bored everyone with garden talk...

its a bright, sunny, warm day today and hopefully we can get out in it a bit. everyone slept last night, so that is good. prayers that the boys (still sleeping) are doing much better today.