Oldest Son did not stop with the cabinet/desk project. On Sunday afternoon, in another fit of he-manliness, he built this in my front yard:
I will be sure to take another picture later in the summer when the sedum is in full bloom. It grows fast, and will drape itself down over the limestone. That’ll be really pretty.
Speaking of pretty, PDD knows I L-O-V-E daffodils. Last week, on the walk home from school one day, she brought me one. She walked in with it behind her back, grinning from ear to ear, and said, “Mama, close your eyes – I have a surprise for you!”
Now, this child has been known to pick other people’s flowers in an effort to score points with me, but she assured me this one came from the yard of an empty house. Maybe I’ll have to go to said empty house and dig up the bulbs… hmm….
As of Friday the 13th at 4pm, the kids have been on Spring Break. To hear them squawk about being bored, you’d think Spring Break was a punishment worse than death. Leave it to Oldest Son to provide a distraction….
He brought home two baby chicks Monday after work. Apparently, they’d been doing some landscaping work for a chicken farmer…and we, living smack dab in the middle of the city of Tulsa, now have two future egg-layers in our backyard.
Well, that is if they survive us, our two dogs, and our cat.
Speaking of surviving…as is fitting with how things work for me, it’s Spring Break, I’ve declared a week off from my business, and…I’m sick. And I’m not the only one…Second Son’s sick, too.
Like a complete dumbass, I bought some new-fangled kind of carpet cleaner and some lavender-scented Pine-Sol for the spring cleaning Second Son and I did on Saturday. Dumb, dumb, dumb. We are both asthmatics. We don’t do store-bought chemicals in this house. For 9 years now, we’ve used non-toxic, environmentally friendly household products. As a result, we’ve kicked our inhaler habits and, except for when we get a cold, breathe like normal people these days. Hell, he plays football, folks…nothing short of a miracle if you knew this kid 10 years ago.
Don’t ask me why I bought that crap. I can’t even give a good excuse, other than I really love the smell of lavender and my non-toxic stuff doesn’t smell that way. It doesn’t smell bad, mind you, it just doesn’t smell like lavender. Ironically, the new-fangled carpet stuff didn’t work worth a shit, either. My non-toxic stuff works much better…I was just being lazy…didn’t want to drag out the steam cleaner.
So, here we are, hacking and coughing and wheezing, feeling like the plague has overcome us.
Spring Break…good times…oh yeah…
Uh- yeah. That’s not exactly how Spring Break is supposed to go down. LOL
And I still say Oldest Son could make a mint with his handiness! I know he would have a regular customer here in SC. LOL
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Spring is back and I bet that is very pleasing to receive gifts from your children,
Let Spring blow the new life to this world
Oh that is really nice Suzanne.. I love the stones… Not sure about that chicken though…LOL. The only presents I have received this spring is a mice from the cat…I think the little critters are pretty cute but finding the stomach on the front porch every morning is kinds gross…. Now, I would not have a problem if she were just getting them from our property but she hunts the field next door to us and brings them back…She has always been a little odd.
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Wow this garden-thingy seems great – I’m looking forward to pics of it after the sedum grows. And you’re saying it took him only one afternoon? That’s pretty fast. You must be really proud of him?
This is really a wonderful decoration for the garden. You got really nice gift of a son. I do not get anything and a small gift to me much delighted.
Woot, woot to the manliness! You might go to bed one day and wake up to a house he built for you overnight!
Nah, on a serious note, it’s nice they’re helping round the house. It is their house afterall.
And that chick. Too cute. Too too cute.
If you like the smell of lavender, could you perhaps buy the non-toxic stuff and sprinkle a few drops of lavender oil into it? Just a thought.
take care…
Woderful garden decoration! And one cute Chick! Too cute actually! Thanks to ur eldest for that 🙂
This was a very pleasant read. It must be spring as garden stories are popping up everywhere.
Thanks for sharing
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Is there any chance you could make him share with us the secrets of creating such a lovely garden … well, whatever you call it, it sure looks great! In theory a construction like this should be fairly simple and easy, but I know from experience things often are not what they appear 😉 And I’d hate ending up with anything worse than this, as it’s just amazing and I’ll settle for nothing less 🙂
i like all the pics which you used in this post.interesting and good post.i like this article.thanks to sharing it.
How old is your son? He really knows how to design an elevated garden. The pipe looks incongruous but it’s practical. lol. Anyway, that pipe should be hidden once the plants are in full bloom 😀
GREAT garden. I wish mine could look like that. Mine is all full of weeds. Sigh….