Amazed
Wed Jan 14 2004

I actually got a good night's sleep last night. It was wonderful! Now I'm just working on herding the kids towards school readiness.

Hubby has called home a couple times lately, and I keep missing his calls. He gave me a number to call him back, but it turns out it isn't a valid phone number. It makes it pretty hard to contact him!

I've been enjoying study breaks with seed catalog's. It is so fun at this point to look through the catalog's and visualize what I'd like to have for this year. Unfortunately I can't have most of the flowers I would like to have due to the lack of sunlight most of my flower beds get. I have these three HUGE fir trees in my yard that extensively shades all the prime flower bed areas. The areas that aren't shaded by trees are shaded by the house. While I like many of the shade loving flowers, my favorites are the sun lovers. I do have one or two little corners that I can tuck heliotrope's into, so I can have some of my fav's.

9 Comments
  • From:
    Salamander (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Jan 14 2004
    I've been thrown into mourning all over again. My first healthy summer in the apartment, and they took away my garden!

    *sob*
  • From:
    StrangeBrew (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Jan 14 2004
    Do you get any bluejays in those pine trees?
    I have a soft spot for those birds.
  • From:
    MagicWhiskey (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Jan 14 2004
    Hm, I just spent the morning with your Urban Legends link. Fun fun.
  • From:
    StrangeBrew (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Jan 14 2004
    For a while Matt, of DD, had a site on his menu re:owls.
    Check out an owl site online that gives you tips on how to attract owls and how to construct a breeding box for them to urge them to stay.
  • From:
    Angelnut (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jan 15 2004
    I have the opposite problem with my garden--my plants get NOTHING BUT sun, and my favorite flowers are the ones that need partial shade!
  • From:
    Sweetsummerbreeze (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jan 15 2004
    Glad you finally got a good nights sleep. Unfortunately I didn't. The little one work up at 3am and was wide awake. He kept getting in bed with the older one and disturbing him so I figured if any of us was going to get any sleep at all someone was going to have to sleep with us. I chose the older one because he was trying so hard to sleep and I knew he would go right to sleep in our bed. Which he did. I was up until around 4 am with the youngest then the oldest work up around 8am. I put him back in his bed because the youngest went back to sleep gave him a bottle and he played in his bed and let me sleep until 11:45am. I'm so tired and I have a class tonight.

    As for the garden I had to have hubby build me a place to plant flowers since we live in a trailer right now I really don't have any place to have a flower garden and the places I could plant some flowers I can't because the ground is just too hard and it doesn't get the right kind of sunlight. I'm going to have him build me three planters this year to put in front of the fence we ar going to be putting up. That will give me some more planting room. I can't wait. I love flowers.
  • From:
    Energy (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jan 15 2004
    The ability to have a garden is my #1 reason for wanting to move out of an apartment. I'm sure you'll find something suitable to grow.

    Glad to hear that you got to hear from your husband for at leats a bit.
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jan 15 2004
    You got problems with too much shade?

    Try gardening on an apartment patio.

    So I"m a grump!!
  • From:
    Honey (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jan 15 2004
    Well, if it isn't kids keeping me up, it's the aches and pains.
    Ain't life grand.

    I love to garden, but unfortiontlyI do not have a green thumb. *sigh*
    But at least I try.

    Catnap during the day works for me.

    Love,
    Honey