One Big Yard

Today we mowed the lawn. Sounds like no big deal huh... Well we also had to rake the whole lawn because the leaves from last fall were so thick it was causing problems. In addition to raking and mowing we bagged all of our grass this time and dumped it in the forest. The grass was so tall in parts we thought it better to remove it. So in parts I stopped every few minutes to go empty the bag. Camera man weed-eated and dug up a stump. That's 1 of 4 stumps we have, 1 down 3 to go. We spent almost the whole day in the yard. I hadn't realized how bad a yard can get in the winter. We have grass coming up in all of the spots we seeded however it's a little spotty. We will have to go in later and add more in spots.
It looks great now and my flower beds look great too because you can see them rather than a field of grass! Not next weekend but the following I plan on planting some flowers in the pots on our back deck. I left the pots out all winter and my "perennials" drowned in water most of the winter and I think I killed them. We also had a beautiful Madagascar Tree on our back deck that I thought I left out too long and killed it. I moved it to the garage knowing I had killed this tropical tree after just one light freezing, but thought I would deal with it next spring. Well the other day I saw all this new life coming out of the trunks. I was amazed! I think Spring is such an incredible season. All of these things "die" but come back with so much gusto... I already have a bud on one of my rose bushes! I know this is something we learn at a pretty young age, but I am like a child all excited, when I see a leaf come up from a flower I planted last year and it went into hibernation and looked pretty much dead.
Anyway, that's enough rambling for me.
Tomorrow... more boxes. :)