Garden Work, Baby Ducks, Good-bye Christmas

I Woke up early this morning and got coffee going then hoped in the shower. Fixed both us a cup of coffee and discussed our day. I left and went to get my hair cut and was back home by 8:30 only to find Gina already out in her Garden. I had to take a few pictures because I just knew she was going to fall in the pond but somehow she managed to get the pond cleaned up without falling in.

Gina Cleaning out the Pond

Gina Streching to Prune Plants in the Pond

I needed to get on the computer so I could write our blog entry. Gina came in and fried some bacon and put some crescent rolls in the oven. This was our brunch. This has been our normal routine for as long as I remember we have always done brunch instead of breakfast and lunch. I finished up the blog and headed outside with Gina. The hardest part for Gina was deciding which flowers to leave in the ground and which one to pull up. This is where I just sit back and wait for instructions. She finally made her decisions and a lot of flowers got pulled up that I thought looked good but she said they would eventually die once summer got here. Something about they were winter flowers. I just said ok. Our children’s adopted grandparents (Jack & Sue) stopped by and Gina had to give them a visual of where her new flower beds were going and how it would look by the end of this week.

Gina is showing where her new Plants will go

We had to leave and go pick up some special dog food that you can only get at the veterinarian. After that we stopped at guess what, another plant nursery.

Gina Shopping for more Plants

She was looking for some kind of tall tropical plant to fill a whole. She finally found some kind of palm tree along with another bush. We then headed for Home Depot to look for an outdoor lamp that you could mount on a pole. Yesterday when my dad and uncle stopped by Gina had asked them if they could make her a portable lamp that she could put outside of our home on wheels. Well they said sure bring us a light and we’ll do the rest. Now, this is not going to be just any run of the mill lamp post but she wants to hang a sign with our names on it and on the other side she wants to hang a bird feeder and on those arms she wants some eagles welded on it too. I will post pictures when it’s finish. We did find a lamp and then we headed back to our house to continue working in the garden. Gina had decided that she wanted all the beds ready for planting so she could get started first thing this morning.

Flower Beds ready for Planting

We were both getting hungry so we decided that I would grill hamburgers. We decided to eat outside by the waterfall and just enjoy the sound for a few minutes since Gina was getting tired but she still had a lot more to do.

Thomas drove up with some baby mallard ducks. Gina has wanted ducks in our big pond since we moved here over thirteen years ago but we have always been scared to get them. So with Thomas bringing them home it really made her day.

One week old Baby Ducks

This is our pond & will be where the Ducks will live

Gina fnished preparing her flower beds and then moved on to determining where her new flowers would go. While she doing this I was trying to get all our tiki torches (all 25 of them) filled with oil and lit. I thought it would be nice to sit and relax on our swing enjoying the nice weather and the cool breeze blowing. I tried to take a picture. But it didn't come out great but you can at least see what it looks like at night. We sat outside for awhile until we were getting tired and we knew our day was still not over. We both went inside and jump in the tub to get cleaned up. (not at the same time)

At Night in our Garden

We have only spent a few days at our house since Christmas and guess what our Christmas tree was still up in our living room. We started removing all the decorations so I could disassemble the tree. We finally finished up a little after 10 o’clock and we both sat on the couch to relax for a few minutes before we went to bed. We are both extremely happy that we accomplished all the tasks that we had planned. This is where we wanted to end the day. Another wonderful day.

Good Bye Christmas 2008

Until tomorrow Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.