As if the changing weather and golf cart parked in our front yard aren’t enough, there are yet further signs that Spring is on its way! One of them being my flowerbed!
I wish I had a before picture, but you’re going to have to take my word for it – it was a mess! Last season, we suffered an attack of the ground squirrels, and they went at our front flowerbed HARD. It was SO SAD. They gutted a LOT of our flowers. We. Tried. Everything. We filled holes with water and closed them off with rocks. We put some poison down. Put in motion sensing lights and sounds. Got a little more sadistic and FINALLY made some progress, but by then, it appeared most of the damage was done :/ The flowerbed was FULL of rocks, solar lights, solar frogs (yup) and a couple of very dead pumpkins.
And Cher took it upon herself to clean it all up the other day.
I can’t tell you what everything is, whats going to make it and what isn’t, but I CAN tell you that when all the crap was cleared away, there was life!!
There is HOPE!! I’m excited to see what comes up, and a little apprehensive to see what doesn’t. I REALLY want my peonies to live!
I think its pretty amazing to have someone in my life who comes over, guts the crap out of my flowerbed, swigs some iced tea, hugs me, and asks for nothing more. I WANT to be a family who has LOTS to offer, and it is odd to NEED so much help these days. But I am overwhelmingly grateful to have the people we have, and the love and support we have. Even just in these last few days, we have been shown love in an extreme way that we have NEVER seen before. Its just completely over the top.
For you, friends, we praise the Lord.