Yard Work

I have a couple of flower beds in the front of the house. Actually, they are weed beds. I don't take very good care of them. Our neighbors are all busy doing yard work. The big trend in my subdivision is putting in raised flower beds using fancy concrete bricks. My husband decided we needed to keep up with the Jones's, so we bought a bunch of bricks and tore out one of the flower beds. Unfortunately, after we tore out the original flower bed, a storm front came through and now it's too wet and muddy to finish work on it. I think it will look really nice when we are finally done. We even got a little plastic pond to put in. My neighbors have birdbaths or fountains, and my husband wanted to out-do them all. We wanted to put in a pond when we first moved here. We even had a hole dug in the back yard, but before we could finish it we noticed our neighbor's little kids coming over while we were gone and playing in the rainwater that had pooled in it. My sister's husband's brother had a big fishing pond, and one of his neighbor's kids drowned in his pond, so we decided to fill in the hole and forget about having a pond. That was a long time ago, and our neighbor's kids are older now, so we decided to go ahead with a pond. Also, the pond we are putting in is a lot smaller than what we wanted before. I think we'll be fine this time around. I just can't wait to get this finished, but it's supposed to rain all the rest of this week.