Viva piñata

Jake & I have been spending a lot of time in the yard. For those of you who have played Viva Pinata, that's what it feels like. Taking empty space, creating something with it, & attracting species after species. Only when my species dies, I don't get candy. :-(




I just put this in because I think my boy is hot.




It's been hard to work on my yard with my tooth infection. My weeds were about 2 feet high by the time I was able to get to them. This spot that I've cleared out around the pond took me about 30 hours to weed, edge, arrange the flagstones to my liking, & do some soil prep as the dirt was about as hard as stone.



Jake & I had some fun putting in new pond plants. I can't wait to put in more. Instead of pictures of kids, you get pictures of plants. Ha!

The tall grass is Water Iris & will bloom yellow flowers. The floating plants on the right are Water Hyacinth.

Thalia

Blood Root Grass

Red Leaf Plantain

My favorite is the Blue Mase....maze?...that you plant between the rocks. It will start to trail down the rocks as it grows.

We were happy to find that Iris grew and it looks like a Day Lily is growing as well. I'm excited to see what colors I get. I think the Iris is going to be purple.

This is a Water Hyacinth close up. The float losely on the water & the fish like to feed on its roots. If you blow this picture up you will see the new pinata/species we have attracted.

Everybody, welcome Earl. I was spraying the pump clean when this 2 foot long snake started wildly crawling out of the water. I was screaming "Snake!! Snake!!" I'm pretty sure he was screaming "Where! Where!" I ran away & we lost him. Later I came back to find him wrapped around the pump with his head gently resting on the top of the Water Hyacinth. I fell in love with him & named him Earl.

Here's a funny little video of Earl. Unfortunately, his life was short lived. The pump God has already taken 4 fish of ours. In his greed, he took Earl as well. Sad.

Another pinata/species we have attracted. I'm not going to name this one. He's awfully cute, but he needs to go away. Any suggestions? I'm running into them quite a bit.

Mysha loves being in the back yard while I'm gardening. I think it reminds her of spending time with Mom working in the yard. It's been so fun to have her again. I've totally fallen in love with her all over again.

Sometimes she likes to sit on top of the pond to survey what we are doing. (Anybody feel like pulling weeds?)

Mysha has joined us in our gardening. She's quite involved with it. Here's garden spot #1.

Garden spot #2

Garden spot #3

Garden spot #4


Garden Spot #5 - My favorite

You can see she's been hard at work. We deal with these dirty paws on a daily basis.


I have also been hard at work as well spending 3-4 hours a day trying to get control of this mess. It's hard work man!

However, after a hard day of work, we all get together & and snuggle in our exhaustion. Which provides for some mighty cute pictures with my mighty cute family.