it has been a while. obviously.

and since it has. we have accomplished a few things at the homestead. if i had done this post in a more timely fashion, i would have gone on and on about how much work it was. lucky for you i have the anesthetic of time, so you won't be subjected to all of that. just some nice pictures.

the yard no longer looks like this....
and looks more like this.
oh what a difference 100 bales of pine straw, 50 new plants, and about 170 plants from your old house can make.
this once, i am not exaggerating. we literally had at least that many plants. day lilies, iris, amaryllis, spirea, hydrangeas, some purple things that i am not sure of the name of and whose fate is yet to be determined, and a few other random things. my mom and i dug up all of these items, hauled them across the road to the new house. then my parents and i planted them. sounds fun, right?

this is about 1/25th of what we had going on....
somebody mentioned that i may be the worst tenant ever. basically because i moved out of a house we had lived in for 10 years. and then took everything in the yard too. this sounds like i am a gypsy or something, which may be true. but i took the plants because they were my great grandmother's, then my grandmother's, and some of my mother's. so i have a history with these plants. so i feel this is justified. plus i cleared it with the new residents beforehand. so fingers crossed everything blooms beautifully next spring. or i am moving it all back.

also if you think you don't see plants in those flower beds it is because we cut everything back before we planted it. so i am not faking that number.

stay tuned for more fun new house posts. like "how to repaint two rooms in your brand new house that just got painted 5 months ago".