An Outside Metamorphis Monday!

Our lovely Susan at Between Naps on the Porch

is our wonderful hostess for this fun day

that many of us love to post about.

Thank you Susan for being a gracious hostess for us.

I have an outdoor project I have mentioned before in my blog

and have done a tutorial on for a Three or More post.

But this project has become a mess

and needs to be resurrected again.

So here goes.......

My Petunia Tower.

There is a picture in my side bar of how it looked last summer.

The old petunias died off and the weeds sprouted

from the winter rains.

A big messy mess.

Right?

Now you can see I have pulled the old petunias

out of the pots.

And I pulled out the weeds around my pots,

including some of the neighbors weeds.

Otherwise the pots would still be kind of buried from the

neighbor's weeds.

Here is another view looking out at the green belt

area in our mobile home park.

We are fortunate we have that green belt to look at.

You can't see it here,

but from this angle we also have a view of the hills in the distance.

It is especially pretty with the morning sun shining

on the hills.

I saw these bricks/stones being used as a plant

surround at work.

I really liked the look of it and wanted to do that around my tower.

So last weekend we got some stones.

When I got home from work on Thursday,

I scraped the bark away from the tower and tried to make it

sort of level.

Then I started placing the stones around the tower.

The view people walking along the green belt would see.

Now the stones are all the way around.
And we added a stepping stone for the tower to sit on.
It was not easy to get the heavy tower on there.
Hubby helped with that part.
We tilted the tower some and worked the stone under there.
But the stone was too close to one edge.
We used one of hubby's belts around the stone,
and hubby pulled on the belt while I held the tower steady.
Worked like a charm!!
So there is a hint for you if you try to do something similiar.
The ground sort of slopes here and the tower is not
perfectly straight.
I may try to straighten it more.
But then on Friday it started raining.
Rained on Saturday.
Rained on Sunday.
Needless to say, I have not been back out there.
My plan is to add dirt in the open area between the stones
and the tower and plant seeds there.
I will be planting petunia seeds in the pots.
It will look very different this year compared to last year.
I will post more when I have done more on this
current project.
In the meantime,
when it rains

we


get



these!




ANTS!!!!

The rain chases them into the house.
Yucko!!
Happy Monday everyone!
~Linnea~