Buying flowers.

Today we went to the flower shop, or rather the huge flower store chain, and bought some flowers and candle accessories for my hubby's grandma. My eyes were wide open and I was slightly salivating since I LOVE buying flowers. I wanted to buy a whole bunch of flowers so I can plant them in my garden.

Then it hit me...we have to re-garden the whole backyard. Since we removed two huge pine trees, there are holes with wood chipping everywhere. I did some research, and it is going to take FOREVER to grow anything in those patches. Between the wood decay from the chipping and the roots underground, it will take years for anything to grow. The only thing that might grow are mushrooms. YUCK! Plus I want to make little areas so I can plant my flowers, so we'll probably have to set down some stone borders. More money literally out the window.

Aw well. I still like flowers and I really want our backyard to dry up so I can rake the leaves, and start getting dirty. I bought some blue violets for my windows in front of my house...but I forgot to buy the dirt. DOH! I'm going to have to do it tomorrow.

Here is a shot after we took down those trees.