Sweeping Through Life

Kinda sounds like a Lifetime TV movie. My husband enjoys working on cars, fixing things and his new obsession.....our yard. He has always cared about how our lawn looks, but now it has grown to flowers and plants. It started with hosta plants. He was so in to them that I started calling him "Hosta Man" as a joke. He has now moved to vegetables ( which I am looking forward to eating), a butterfly garden and several different shaped plots of land with various plants in them in my backyard. He is constantly looking up things about mulch and organic gardening. Before he just TiVo car shows, but he has moved on to recording landscaping and gardening shows, like " Yard Crashers " and " Gardening by the Yard ". I came home the other day and he had dust all over him and I asked what he was doing and he stated," Just drilling a hole in some rock for the water feature." Mr. J and one of the neighbors (who also has a nice yard) talk often about what to use ...

Peonies. I love the peony flower. I picked these from my mom's yard on Saturday. I think that they look great in my dining room. Mr. J does not really like to peonies, because they always have to big, black ants on them but he accommodates me since I love them so. When I brought these home, I set them outside on our deck for a while so that the ants could get back to nature and not make a home in my house. Here are my peonies. I planted these last fall in my backyard. They are off shoots from my mom's. They do not have any buds or blooms on them yet, I hope that they do by they end of the summer, so that I am able to pick more of these pretty flowers to display in my house.