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Mum’s visit

kasper — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:33:54 +0000

My Mum was down for the last 2 days, so that’s why you haven’t seen me around. She always brings stuff for us whenever she comes, and this was no exception. She brought an adorable pair of white overalls with boats on them and a turquoise plastic deck chair (mini-sized) for baby D. She brought me a pot of assorted plants and her old plugin garden lights. We had a great time shopping for plants for my window boxes and pots. I am all gungho to rip out the prickly hedges in the front of the house and plant Spirea instead. It’s going to be a huge job since there are 4 hedges to be removed. Hopefully I can manage to get everything in my mind done before my Dad gets home. I’m going to keep this entry really short because I’m off to plant my window boxes.

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Till Debt Do Us Part

kasper — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:57:46 +0000

This morning started uber-early as we had to drive across the city to get some papers signed. We have been having some pretty serious debt problems that we were getting worked out through an agency which removed all the interest off the credit cards, but we found an even better deal. The new deal got our debts down to like a third of what they were and the payments are insanely easy compared to what we were paying each month. If all goes well we will officially be out of debt in a year and half at the latest. Yahoo! Finally.

I have to say it’s really irritating though when I have to get myself up, dressed, do my hair, get my son up, nurse him, get him dressed, feed him, get the diaper bag ready, get all the papers together that we needed to take and somehow, hubby having a coffee, showering and getting dressed makes us late. They say women take forever to get ready? Not in this household!

On the way back from the financial planners’ we stopped to check out the garden centre at the local grocery store. I’ve been chomping at the bit to get a move on so I convinced hubby that we needed to go somewhere. We wandered around and found some really nice plants, but I wanted to see other places too to see if we were getting a good deal or not. I figured that there was probably markup on these plants (coming from a grocery store) that there might not be at a nursery. So we then went to nursery up the street from our place. They had different plants around the same price as we’d already seen. I still want to check out Wal-Mart and see what kind of prices they have in comparison. I’ll probably end up getting my plants from a couple of different places. My Mum is coming over on Wednesday, so I’ve asked the seasoned gardener to assist me with my plant choices.

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Garden aspirations

kasper — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:38:18 +0000

I finally managed to get my butt back out for a walk. It’s been a while now (maybe 2 weeks) since I last walked. I was all gungho there for a bit, but lately I’ve just been making excuses. In my defense it has been raining for a couple of days and it’s been cool (not like I didn’t get out when it was snowing), so I easily talked myself out of it. So while I was out with my little guy I made a point of checking out people’s gardens. Though we’ve done some work already, our house really needs a lot more help. I got to thinking about all the jobs I’d like to do around here. Some of which I’d love to have done before my Dad gets back from Germany. Our lawn needs some serious lovin’ as it is sad and patchy. We have already added grass seed to it and it seems to be growing, but I had always envisioned baby D walking or crawling through the beautiful lush green backyard. It is hardly that at the moment. I feel like I may turn into Hank Hill (of King of the Hill) with his obsession for his lawn. I nearly shrieked when I saw the dandelions popping up out back. Much work to be done. Also this place is in desperate need of plants. Unfortunately since we just moved in in October we have no real idea of what plants are already planted. My Dad left us $80.00 to buy plants and we have 2 big black urns, 6 window boxes and a few different sized pots that need filling. As well I want to get a couple of hanging baskets for around the garage. The other thing I’ve been wanting to do is plant a tree for baby D and to commemorate our new home. I’ve got to do some research on that one though. We already have a whole bunch of trees and I just want something relatively small. Part of the problem in the backyard is that the tree roots are sprouting through the lawn. Maybe tomorrow, depending on what hubby has planned we’ll get out to a garden centre and check things out.

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