That is how we spent most of this beautiful Saturday! Playing in the dirt!  The temperature was around 65 degrees and it was sunny!  I would call it a perfect Spring day in North Carolina!!

I started the day with a long list of small projects that needed to completed to make our yard at least presentable.

1. .Mix new dirt into square foot garden.  (See above).
2. Weed all three flower beds and place new mulch.
3. Fix square foot garden where it was hit this winter.
4. Drill holes in large planter and re-plant.
5. Move and straighten playhouse.
6. Place lime over wet area of yard.
7. Mow and trim yard.
8. Fix Matt’s van, (small leak).
9. Fix cup holder in white van and add cup holder for Lily.
10. Wash and hang to dry all sheets.
11.  Apply mulch to playground and then Preen It (this will prevent weed growth).
12. Wash dog and all his bedding.

As you can tell we did accomplish a lot. The ground is simply too wet right now to get the playhouse adjusted, so hopefully in the next couple of week we can get this marked off the list.  Applying the weed preventer, need to happen just prior to it raining so I am going to do this on Sunday  in anticipation of rain late Sunday night or Monday.

This is one area that I will admit that I usually forget to budget for however this year, I did not.  I had budgeted $100 for the yard, after using this I ended up pulling $25 from the yard sale profits to keep us even for this project. I am so excited to have this behind me and to not have to borrow money to complete. One  of the ways that I ended up saving money was buying plants off the “clearance” shelves at Lowes. I ended up purchasing all but 2 of the plants from this area  this year. I had great success with these last year as most of the time the plants are simply not blooming or missed getting water prior to being placed in this area.

Lily is a bit of a prissy girl and does not like playing in the dirt but because we were all outside, she was required to at least sit outside as well.

And finally a picture of the mulched beds and planter…