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| Found this in the yard, the last remnant of this last years Christmas tree:( |
The weekend of Father's Day we baked Daniel a double layer chocolate cake and started the undertaking of the patio and the raised beds in the backyard. Our backyard has been a disaster since the day we purchased this house. The people that lived here before us couldn't grow grass in that backyard so I am not certain why we even tried. We did though. Daniel aerated, fertilized, seeded, added soil, watered, waited, watered again, waited and repeat. Sure, we would get beautiful bright green young grass shoots and our excitement would swell, all that hard work paying off! But then the dog would always find them the perfect spot to ether hike his leg and relieve himself on or the perfect spot to roll on to relieve his itchy back. The dog, the four trees that shroud our backyard in a blanket of shade, and the sandy/dusty soil was working against us. So the project begun. Lots of trips to the hardware store and garden centers that weekend, and in between we managed to stop at the little sculpture garden of a gallery in downtown Portsmouth. We were constantly passing the garden on the way to Maddie's school and she always picked out the "disco ball" sculpture so we stopped to get a closer look. The piece was called Spin and had CDs and records attached to it, I was surprised that Maddie recognized a record and told me it played music. We dont have records in the house so I dont know where she learned that. It is amazing what children absorb.
