Footprints in the Sand

Son3 posing on the ladder... He said take my picture!

Hubby has almost finished the steps... Just needs a few more bricks to finish the top step...

Then he will remove all the old square bricks and relay them so that they are level with the new patio...

The Morning Glories are coming in...

The Peas are not doing too good... I don't think they are getting enough water and I need to get rid of the snails again...

Son2 on his way to his friend's paintball bday party today... Oops he blinked... and how do you like his bling, lol, he gets mad when I say that... He has since been home to change and then back to friend's house to hang out for rest of bday....

A few pictures of the yard.... Our backyard is an L shape... This looks to the front of the house...

Turn around and now you are looking the back of the house....

This is where the two sides meet....

Do you see that cat pretending to be a garden gnome....

And then turn around and this is the other half of the L in the back of the house....

I never did mow the lawn today... I did trim all the roses... And tons of laundry and made some brownies... and filled the birdfeeders. Cleaned off the island and dining room table... But then mostly sat on my butt trying to get caught up on journals... and then making sure I was getting all alerts, realized I hadn't seen a few journals in awhile, so that led to cleaning out journals that haven't updated in a long while...

So now making some bean dip to go with the tortilla chips... Hubby should be home soon... don't know when son2 will need to be picked up... hubby will probably crash early, he didn't sleep well last night... I'll just crash cause got to get up at 5am for work.... We'll watch these Netflix movies someday... I did finally get the watch Netflix movies online to work, so we watched a documentary on San Diego Zoo and Park this morning...

The tomatoes are growing... and we have two so far....

Happy Journaling...

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• #14 Comment from rjet33 
  5/17/08 8:49 PM | Permalink

  I was going to ask how the patio was coming along.  It looks great!  I love your backyard.  It looks so lovely.  I am envious!~  ;-)  We can landscape our yard here in the mobile home park.  Hope to get to that soon.  
  
  Blessings!~
  
  Susan
  http://journals.aol.com/Rjet33/CountryLivingSouthernStyle/
  
  P.S.  Can't believe how your boys are growing!  Have I been away THAT long?  Sheesh!~
• #13 Comment from lifes2odd 
  5/17/08 6:17 PM | Permalink

  I decided to come on over and catch up since I'm finally done cleaning for today. You are such an inspiration to me, my yard is about the size of yours, hard to work with but you've done such a beautiful job! I have all my ideas lined up and have for years but just can't get my hubby interested in doing much of anything out there and I just don't have the time to do it all! I'm hoping I can get things started this summer. I'm coming here for inspiration! Martha :-)
• #12 Comment from mtrib2 
  5/16/08 9:11 AM | Permalink

  My neighbor said she has a tomato plant for me that I can put in a large container this summer.    I will put the container part way in the ground to keep the roots cooler and the water can drain.     Son 3 has the exact same facial expression in each photo, lol.   I think it is difficult for people to learn to convey different expression's when their photo is being taken, I know it is for me.    Son2 has a different expression, lol.    He could be showing his meditative thoughts.   I have read or seen on TV that snails or slugs will drown in a plastic bowl with some beer in it.    I have an ant problem in my kitchen sink area and in my upper room and use pine oil in a spray bottle that kills them dead.    I don't like spraying poison's.    I did set some ant trap's several years ago that the ants are suppose to carry back to the nest and it kills the queen.    I don't think they worked though.    Wherever I see their path's I keep attacking them with pine oil until they stop using that path way into my home.     The patio brick work is great.  mark
• #11 Comment from jlocorriere05 
  5/12/08 2:49 PM | Permalink

  Son3 is a real poser! I thought Nina was bad! Lol at Raisin being a garden gnome too! I'm glad you had a good weekend, I spend ages catxhing up on journals too! Jeannette xx  http://journals.aol.co.uk/jlocorriere05/Welcometomytravels/  
• #10 Comment from hugsdoodlewacky 
  5/11/08 12:08 PM | Permalink

  ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((HUGSTOYOU)))))))))))))))))))))HAPPY MOMS DAY.The boys are getting big and they are very handsome.I love the flowers.