Snowballs and My Weekend Warriors

We had the most beautiful weather this past weekend!

Jackson got in lots of outside play time.

Jackson would stay outside from sun up to sun down.

He was finally able to get his gator our and ride it around the yard

and Austin walked right with him in case he needed a little boost.

The shoes were off and he was ready to play...

He had so much fun running and climbing all over the yard.

We laughed because it seemed like the grass was turning green

right before our eyes.

My Azalea bush is getting ready to bloom.

Lots and lots of little pink blooms  ready to burst.

I noticed the other day that some of the azalea's in town 

have already bloomed and started to fade already.

I think the groundhog was wrong this year...

we have definitely had a mild winter and spring

has made an early arrival.

Scott worked on his lawnmower this weekend

getting ready for his other full time job of the summer...

the yard!

He bought a spray tank this week to add to his lawn care

arsenal and worked this weekend to attach it to his lawnmower.

I laughed a little, because he really would like to have one of those

zero-turn lawnmowers but can't justify spending the money

unless something happens to his mower.

And even when it did break down, he worked to fix it

instead...still can't spend the money.

I told him now that he made this neat little attachment

for his spray tank, the mower would die,

he would finally give in and buy a new mower,

and have to build something else to make it work.

(He gave me a dirty look)

But now he is all ready to spray the weeds and 

get some fertilizer out!

Another one of Scott's weekend projects was

to fix the downspout between the 

garages.  When it would rain, the water would

shoot out of the middle of the downspout,

so,  Scott spent the morning digging it our and

re-routing the drain.  He also dug out a tree

root that had been in the flower bed.

Last spring, our only tree was snapped off at the base

when a big storm came through and we had not put anything

back in it's place.

I decided that I would like to have a snowball

bush in the yard and this seemed like a good place

to put one.  I can't wait for it to grow larger and 

"hide" the downstairs garage from the street.

All planted, filled in and mulched up.

Now waiting for it to grow, grow, grow

so I can use some of the big beautiful blooms around the house.

I do not have a green thumb, but every spring I get the 

urge to go and buy lots and lots of flowers and plants

and put them everywhere...

I think our snowball bush is a great start.

Hope you were able to get out and enjoy some 

sunshine where you are this weekend...