Friday, May 2, 2008

Success! Also, I brake for testosterone

T and I (As well as the youngest of T's brothers, who is 16 and therefore ripe for exploitation in the manual labor variety) spent the last few days bringing a "Campaign of Terror" to his yard. We mowed, we aerated, we fertilized, we weeded....we tore out the "garden", which was more of an extension of the lawn, removed bushes, pruned hedges and other bushes....

And we planted. Planted planted planted. T is going to have the girliest front yard when my efforts come to fruition. Over 100 bulbs went into the now reclaimed garden....it shall be glorious.

Aside: We decided to plant daisies in the window boxes. Cheerful. The daisies, combined with a small blue flower that a random woman in Home Creepo loved, would immediately brighten up the front of the house.

That is, if T and I could count. THREE trips to the nursery it took us, THREE, to determine that in 4 boxes, we would need 8 daisies. Sigh.

Anyway, the yard, it's promising.



Today was a big day for taking pictures out the drivers side window of the car. Bear with me. (Also, please ignore the hose. I did.)

Anyway--notice the "Rambo" tulips--Those things have been through the wringer and they, through no effort of anyone, have survived. I had mercy on their fighting spirits and left them there. The rhododendrons, wild daisies and snail commune were not so lucky.


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I delivered lunch to T at work today, as he awoke this morning seven minutes after he was supposed to be on the clock and didn't have the time to pack it himself.

Before I would give him his lunch, I made him hold still so I could snap a photo, you guessed it, out the drivers side door/window of the car.




T works a manly job.

I appreciate this. Really. No, really. Yes. Like that.

If this manly job didn't require him to be covered in a nasty ass stink all the time, I might make him dress like this more often. (No, it doesn't really wash out. I have tried. Good lord, have I tried.)