Memorial Day Weekend Work Out

An exhausting but productive weekend.  We planted 7 new shrubs, 4 new large perennials, transferred 3 medium sized dwarf spruce bushes, added more herbs and weeded the entire yard and perennial garden. We put out aqua spikes, started unloading water from the storage tanks into gallon size water jugs for watering the garden.  We put out the grill and started to cut down saplings to make fences for the vegetable beds but had to quit because it just got to be too hot on Saturday.

The yard is looking great, everything survived the weak winter - the scotch thistle plants are going to be beautiful.  They are about 3 feet high at the moment but will get to be 6 feet by the time they mature and bloom.

We have a long summer and our biggest concern is that we get enough rain this year as it has been so warm.

Sunday morning, we woke up sore and tired - lots of Aleve - my lower back is killing me.  The pond and center yard berm are the focus this year and we made a big start but plenty of work to do.