This is the first stage of beautifying the curb of my house. This area will be filled with flowers when I am done. An area that will have to be dug up in the fall - never thought I would do that - and some to wildflowers and an area of perennials with a mix of annuals as well. I will keep you posted on its progress.

I did get my tiller back!! Let me tell you, I have hand dug areas to put flowers in, and some pretty big. But that was more than 7 years ago and I don't believe I could do that now. Preparing an area by hand is pretty dang hard. The tiller made this a bit easier, worked different muscles. I still have to get it all loosened up and ready to plant. With it being spring and all, rain keeps putting it off.

This is the vegetable garden in the back. It still needs a couple more good stirs with the tiller. In the back ground there, you can see the black trashcans with the potatoes in them. The one on the right has red potatoes the left has Yukon Gold. We will see how that goes. The seedlings for the garden have been moved outside and I am just waiting to make sure it doesn't get too cold again before I put them in the ground.

I guess I should tell how the tiller story ended up. In the previous post it had been 5 days since I had heard from them. Finally I called and asked the status. The answer was, "Well, we just opened the box of parts that came in yesterday from UPS. We should have it ready by this evening if you want to call back then." I had to work "this evening" and ended up getting it the next day I think. They had to put a new carburetor on it instead of the rebuilt one. The "gave" it to me at their cost of 30$. Since I had already paid almost 80 to have it "fixed" in the first place. A bit frustrating, but I have it now and boy does it run!!

Que sera, sera

Ok, so I live in Kentucky. And the weather here in totally unpredictable. It is all one big cycle and this year happened to include a late freeze, not just a frost, but an extended very cold spell. I did not cover ANYTHING, or try to protect anything. I prefer for things to just happen naturally as much as possible. I think things like this happening is natures way of pruning things, or something like that anyway. Luckily, I didn't give in to what the warm weather might have tricked me into doing, and nothing was put in the ground for the garden yet. I knew better, and there will probably be more cold spells until summer sets in. And my tiller went back to the shop over the weekend, that probably had something to do with stuff not getting put out as well.

There to the left you will see a picture of what my tiller looks like. It is a handy tool. Last year it started not running properly, starting but not continuing to run after a bit. Very frustrating. I took it in this year so that I wouldn't have that problem. It isn't very old, maybe 2 or 3 and hasn't been over used. Anyway, took it in and it took the repair shop 3 weeks to get it back to me and that was only after I just showed up after call after call and asked who I had to light a fire under to get my tiller back - HA!! Then when I was trying to get the garden all tilled and ready to plant it kept cutting out on me - AGAIN. So, I took it back and then I just popped in today and asked what was the deal. I can be mean if I need to, but I prefer not to. Alan ended up calling them back when I was trying to just make do and he asked them how soon they could look at it and get it back to us. They said bring it right in and they could probably have it ready the next day. Being a man seemed to help as they drug me along for 3 weeks before. Well, they didn't have it done today (5 days later), and lucky for them I don't need it right now as it is so cold.

I am just trying to be patient with the weather and the repair shop. It is their busy time of the year and I am not their only customer. Hopefully everything will kick in and in the proper timing. We will see, I guess.