Saturday, June 05, 2010

My Front Yard

We had a very busy day today. We went to Cabela's in Scarborough Maine with George's son Jon and Jon's wife Nikki. George has been wanting to go for awhile now and Jon was looking for some ideas for George's birthday and Father's Day gift so we thought it would be fun to all go together and let George pick out whatever he wanted. We spent over 2 hours walking around the store and George got himself some hunting gear that he was in dire need of. I also bought him a lined fall jacket since he needed one of those too. What a great store and when Nikki sends me the pics she took today, I will post them.

We went to Famous Dave's restaurant for lunch after working up quite an appetite. The food there is quite good and I enjoyed my lunch very much. I got a combo plate with chicken and beef brisket (all BBQ) and it came with corn bread and I picked Dave's Mac and cheese to go with it. Very yummy with a little kick of jalapenos mixed in.

We just got home a bit ago so it has been a rather long day. I have a load of laundry going but that's all I am doing. The rest of the evening will be spent relaxing. But first, some pics of my front yard.

George has been working very hard this spring to get the yard in shape. He got his tractor all fixed up and now he can use it to mow the front and back yard and he has this nifty little utility trailer to pull all of his yard tools and buckets, etc. around. Sure does make life easier for him since we have a lot of space to mow, weed and take care of. So I have enclosed some pics of what our front yard now looks like, after several hours of weeding, mowing and planting.

This is to the left of the front door. I have no idea what the light colored bushes are called but there is a peony bush behind those and last year we only had about 6 flowers blossom from it. This year we counted 47 flowers just about ready to blossom.






This area is to the right of the front stairs. This little bear cub was used as a door stopper awhile back and then was just sitting in the corner of the kitchen collecting dust so I thought he would enjoy being outdoors and decorating (guarding) the flower bed. I loved the galvanized buckets George had on the side of the house. Before they just had weeds in them. Now they are filled with pretty flowers.



I found this bird bath at a tractor supply store, of all places. It was the last one they had and I got it at a real bargain. Off to the side you can see a large oepn space. That is where George does most of his bow target practicing.



A view of the front of the house



More shots






Before the peonies started to bloom



Yesterday one opened up



We had rain overnight and 2 of the peonies that are open were full of water and were hanging pretty low to the ground. I think tomorrow, I am going to see if I can tie them up somehow so they stay all bunched up and not laying all over the ground.

Enjoy!

13 comments:

AliceKay said...

Very nice pictures. George does a great job at landscaping. (does he hire out?) :)

I love the bear cub playing amongst the flowers. He's really cute. The bird bath looks nice there, too.

You and George have a great looking home, Lainie.

Lainie said...

I'm lucky that he enjoys doing it, cos I like looking at it but not so much putting in the effort.

Intense Guy said...

Your place looks really nice Lainie!

I hope you got your tractor ride.

I think your mystery plant is a Euonymus. :)

Toriz said...

Glad George got your garden looking nice for you. :)

Lainie said...

Cool Iggy thanks. I'm gonna look it up and see if you are right. (I am pretty sure that you are though) I am going to mow the lawn next weekend with the tractor! Wooohooo!!

Yes Tori...I am a lucky lady. I am very pleased with the outcome. But this fall we will plant some bulbs for next spring. I want some day lilies, irises and gladiolas and we'll plant them in the back since they grow quite tall.

Anonymous said...

I was so happy to see your post, thank you so much for sharing the pictures of a part of your own little world, they are beautiful and I really enjoyed seeing everyone of them hugssssssssss

Deanna said...

We love Cabelas. Those closest one to us is a 3 hour drive. Obviously we don't get there very often!

Love the pictures. George sounds like Jim. He loves to putter in the yard.

Deanna

Karla said...

Such a pretty flower bed..wish I was that "green thumbed"

Karla said...

I wish I had a green thumb :(

LadyStyx said...

Looks really nice.

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Anonymous said...

wow.....its a very nice pics... you have a large frontyard..hehe, i like your house.. ^.^b

Pleasure to meet you :)

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