It is Sunday afternoon and i am sitting on the patio wirelessly connected to the web on my laptop posting to my blog. Love this technology. Well to start off, if you remember my last blog i was whining about the changes in insurance companies and how to get new insurance i would need to remove the slide and diving board from my pool. I had a picture posted of the area where the slide use to be. Once again i will wait if you need to review or [gasp] read the last blog because you haven't read it yet.
OK, so as you can see from the picture here i made some changes. I am calling this my slide garden. A few dollars worth of plants, a bunch of pine straw, some rocks and voila' a new garden spot. I am looking forward to the flowers coming up, attracting the butterflies and hummingbirds.
Kim has been away the past couple of days at a conference in New Orleans with some of the ladies from church. As a matter of fact, as i sit here typing this she is on her way back expecting to arrive in a couple more hours. While she was away i spent two days working on the lawn. She hasn't seen the changes yet which include the completion of the slide garden and two more gardens i put in the front of the house. I will post pics of these at a future date. It was hard work and of course i overdid a bit but at least i was able to make the place look nicer.
Kim and i were talking last week and saying how we are getting tired of just working on our jobs and then working around here and really not enjoying the beauty of the place where we live. We realize of course that we need to do our job and chores and take care of what God has blessed us with but we are not getting any younger folks.
We were also talking about family birthdays and the ages of our grandkids. I was lamenting the fact that there are no grandkids with a single digit age. Now i know that i am still young [in my head] but there appear to be circumstances all around me that belie that notion. Like the fact that i have a grandaughter who is 23 and a great grandson who is two and looks like he is five. There is also the fact that i use to be able to work in the yard from early morning to late evening without a problem. I tried that the other day and about halfway through, i was hurting in places that i didn't even know existed.
All that said, we have determined that we are going to try and enjoy ourselves this summer. I am determined to make things look nice around here mostly with low maintenance plants and such and spend more time with my wife and family. People spend hundreds of dollars to vacation here and spend time on our beaches and yet i haven't gone yet. I am so thankful for all of God's blessings and want to try and get my focus right.
Well that is enough ramblings for now. I am pleased with the way thing are looking around the yard and looking forward to seeing Kim when she gets home. I am thankful that God has given me the strength to be able to do these thing and have a family that i look forward to enjoying time with. God is good.