Well it's time to add another entry on the old blog. Let me start by thanking everyone for the birthday phone calls, it was great to talk to all of you. Thanks for remembering your old dad. I guess I'm probably not the greatest conversationalist on the phone, ( can't ever think of much to say), that has traditionally been Mom's realm of expertise. But feel free to call any time you want to, even if only to shoot the bre
eze. Also thanks to everyone for remembering to call your Mom on Mothers Day. Mom loves to hear from you all. We think about you all every day. In fact three have moved back home for a while.....Yes, spring has sprung, and it's time for another season of WORK in the yard. You'll notice in pictures # 10 and 11 that we finally got continuos eaves troughs on both sides of the garage, and did you notice that we got rid of those pesky, always in the way, down spouts. So no more stepping over 4 inch pipes.
The twelfth photo was yesterdays "first big project" that we did yesterday. The back of the house has cleaned up nicely eh! A few more loads of gravel and a little more sweat and effort spreading it and it will look great!!! Mom can already imagine it with the deck over it (someday). There's always next year.....
Just a little word or two about this blogging site. I actually uploaded the pictures in the order I wanted to talk about them, but every time you up load a picture it becomes the first in line, and I couldn't figure out how to get them into the right order. Nuff said!!!
Pictures # 3 through 9 show how the back gardens look right now, and are an indication of the ongoing projects that we have each year. You'll notice by all the white marker sticks that we have already transplanted and planted a lot of perennials and bulbs. We have also planted four new shrubs in the back gardens. We have also already power raked the lawns, cut most of them twice, trimmed the roses, planted ground cover plants between the roses and roto-tilled all the flower gardens and the garden.
Picture #2 is the front garden that we have started to edge, to try and stop the grass from growing into it.
Note to the Cooper grandchildren: do you see our flowers starting to bloom. It's not quite like Port Moody and your fabulous flowering trees and shrubs and etc. But it's pretty good for Southern Alberta this early in the year.
Picture #1 is the pond that I just drained yesterday. It's pretty gross and icky. So we'll have to clean it out when it dries. Maybe Mal will do it???
There you have it. Summer work camp has begun.
Till next time, Dad.
