Okay, move over Marigold, there's a new kid in town! Yes, you guessed it... the Whitneys have yet another "blooming flower". (Doesn't it sound like I'm British and I'm swearing?) This time we are the proud parents of a bright and cheerful nasturtium. Now, we've only got one mind you. The rest of these little devils are not looking like they are even considering putting in an appearance. However, with our rate of success, we have decided to relish these small victories!
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Today the boys and I decided to do some transplanting of those humongus Cosmo Plants. Some of the tallest ones are about 3 feet tall now, and still NO BLOSSOMS. How bizarre is that? Since they look like they are going to grow up to the sky at this point... we decided to move them to the back of the garden. Maybe we can use them to climb into our neighbor's maple trees! Or better yet, visit a giant's castle in the clouds one day! I've always wanted a singing flute.
Devon didn't want us to transplant these bizarre creatures. He was too scared we'd kill them all in the process. So, we just waited for him to go to work... and got busy. We figure it's "better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission".
Meanwhile, the veggies are doing quite well. We are still enjoying our nightly salads. We have not grown bored of shopping in our own backyard every night for lettuce. We wish that the tomatoes would hurry and start turning red. We are spending a fortune at Maceys (our local grocery store) to supplement our other salad fix-ins.
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Our lawn is slowly coming along. Now that we are on a pretty good watering regimen, most of the lawn looks green. Except for the front (between the sidewalk and road) where Devon is too stingy with water to let us use the sprinklers there.
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We did notice a couple of odd patches of non-green color (aka icky yellow) grass and Devon thinks it's because we've been using our firepit directly on the grass. So, the boys and I headed off to Lowes and bought some red bricks to place the firepit on. Being much too lazy to dig the required 12 inches deep (plus add in a layer of gravel, a layer of sand, and framing boards) we threw the patio stones down directly on top of the scorched grass. The lawn looks much better buried under those fetching red bricks, even if the whole thing does look a little wonky and lopsided.
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*** Additional note: Joshua watered the lawn tonight and forgot about our new red brick feature. Hopefully, our firepit won't get all rusty now that it's been drenched with water for 90 minutes. We usually keep it covered, but because of our need to protect the scorched lawn, we've probably ruined our fireplace feature. ***
