Today I was going to tackle Mount Laundry. Actually, it's not laundry. That implies the clothes are dirty. These are all clean. There's just too much of them. I know, I know, I should have sorted out all my clothes in the old house & not brought all of them down here & then sorted through them. I knew I wouldn't have enough room for all of my clothes, but not how much I would have to get rid of. My final fantasy is putting my dresser in the laundry room right across from the washer & drier. Then I could take the clothes out of the drier, fold them, and then put them right in the drawer where they belong. Right now there's this makeshift assortment of cabinets. The Man is going to tear them out for me eventually, but right now he's busy getting the yard fixed up for the winter.
Which is what we did this weekend.
Curtis, a friend of ours that does landscaping, has been helping us. He moved a bunch of little bushes that had been lined up on both sides of the driveway to in front of the house. They looked good along the driveway, but there wasn't enough room to maneuver so they kept getting a little bit run over. Now they're safe. And the cats love the nice loose dirt where they used to be. Perfect for little kitty poops.
There was this weird strip of mulch between two trees in the front yard with a couple of ugly wooden benches but he ripped those out pretty much as soon as we moved in. Yesterday he ripped out the mulch strip & then dumped some new mulch around both trees. It looks really good, but I'm mad at him anyway. I have been wondering if there were any tulips or daffodils hiding around here somewhere waiting to surprise me this spring. There were. All around one of the trees. He dug them up & threw them away with the old mulch.
I know. He threw away flowers! The heartless beast. Don't tell him, but I dug around in the piles of mulch & yard waste he dumped in the back & found a couple of clumps of daffodils. I'm going to plant them in a flower pot & stuff them in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks or a month or however long you have to so they'll bloom in the middle of winter. Then next fall I'm going to plant them somewhere in the yard. No matter what Curtis says.
Besides the Daffodil Incident, I also have a bunch of irises I need to plant. Some of them are from the old house. A bunch of real pretty yellow ones that I've had for years. Some of them are from here & I don't have any idea what color blooms they'll have, but I had to move them. There's a back 'porch' type area with a rotten, leaky roof. That's where we put the jaccuzi. This spring we're going to re-roof it & wall it in, turn it into a regular room, but for right now we're just going to cover the roof with a tarp & wrap plastic around the sides to keep the wind out. The Man wants to get a propane patio heater to put out there so it's not so cold when he gets out of the water, but so far it hasn't been all that cold.
So anyway, Curtis had a plastic billboard cover that he gave us to wrap around the sides so that was the plan for today. Unfortunately, 3 clumps of irises would have ended up on the inside, dark & no rain side of the plastic, so I had to dig them up. Since I don't know what any of the new ones will look like when they bloom, I'm going to just mix them all up with the yellow ones from the old house. I'm going to plant them all along the south side of the house where there's a pretty empty flower bed Curtis hasn't worked on yet. That'll be mine. I just hope the irises from here aren't the same ugly muddy purple & orange ones that were under the ash tree at the old house. I never did like those.
I also have a bunch of asparagus from the garden up on the hill that needs planting. After we finished hanging up the plastic sheet around the back porch The Girl & I dug the tiller out of the shed & The Man tilled up a strip where the garden is going to go. Tomorrow he's going to plant the asparagus for me.
Now that's love.
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