What a Day

My week has been quite the roller coaster this week. Yesterday was a terrible day at work for many reasons. It was just one of those days even though all of this nice weather has made it hard to be down. I was moping about the state of utter chaos my house had miraculously transformed into in just one week. It was one of those days when you realize that there will never be enough time and/or money to do everything you want. But apparently while sleeping in my immensly comfortable new bed last night I gave myself a little pep talk. I woke up this morning not knowing that today would be so great (especially after yesterday). I went to school and aced two tests, got done in lab early so I was able to be home a little after one. While walking to class this morning I decided that today was the day. I have been talking about tearing out all the weeds on that strip of dirt between the sidewalk and the street for months now. So today when I got home from school I was on a mission. I went to the conglomerate of societal decay aka Walmart and got several bags of landscaping bark to fill in the area soon to be cleared of weeds. While on my adventure to Walmart I also found some amazing treasures. I found my little pods that I need to start my seeds (unfortunately the ones I had ordered with my seeds were on backorder until the middle of March, which is way to late to plant little seeds). I also found some B E A utiful Ranunculus that I just couldn't resist which will help me with my front planter makeover this weekend.

I apologize for my terrible picture quality of my wonderful new flowers. I was in a big hurry and to be honest the sun was glaring on my viewing screen and I couldn't see a damn thing so I was kind of just pointing and shooting. I am a little sad that you can't tell that the middle plant is actually pale yellow with pink edges, but I guess I will just have to take a better picture of it later so you can see. 

So, back to my original mission. Here is the before picture of the funky strip of dirt in front of our house by the street...

As you can see, it is just weeds, and lots of excess dirt. After about two hours of shoveling dirt and trying to save all the worms I could from certain death we are about 1/3 of the way done. I really didn't expect it to take so long. After filling David's truck to the brim with dirt and acquiring three very plump blisters (one of which no longer has skin and is the size of a nickel in the middle of my palm: doesn't feel good AT ALL) we called it good for the day. This is what we accomplished today...

David's poor truck...I don't think it could have handled much more.

I can't believe what a difference it's making already, I can't wait to finish! Although I have heard through the grapevine that we are not expecting the same great weather that we have had all week, I am determined to finish this thing as soon as possible.

I am too tired to proof my posting so if you find anything retarded please let me know. I am officially all talked out and it is almost ten o'clock and way past my old lady bedtime, so off I go to my bouncy bed. Here's to another great and productive day tomorrow.