cinagel | Gardening makes me feel sane.

So things are back on the upswing from the other day. Just overall feeling better and more positive. I think I just needed a venting session and some wine with Mr. Max. I came home after my Cranky McCrankerson day and Max got me a glass of wine as well as dinner ready for me (RED MEAT! RWAAAAWWR!). We also watched the Hangover and I laughed my ass off which helped BIG time. I'm feeling more like myself finally...still sick though...crap.
Yesterday was my half day. It was a georgous day so after I grabbed some lunch, I went to Home Depot to scout out some new flowers for the front yard. I picked up some English primrose since they where only a buck a piece as well as a plant called a Red Kangaroo Foot...I kinda love it. Its supposed to be drought tollerant so I picked it up. It needs a lot of sun so I'm hoping front and center in the front yard will help it out. Went home and finally tore out all the "interesting" things that have popped up since the rain started. And by interesting I mean grass...LOTS of grass...Seriously, I was tearing out blocks of sod where it shouldn't be. It took a few hours but I managed to get the herb garden and flower beds in the front yard cleaned up nicely. Planted my primrose and waiting a bit on my kangaroo's foot since I want to make sure I have it in a good place. Ite lawn needs to be OMGMOOOOOWED! but alas, out lawn mower broke. So I'm kinda screwed. I'll probably be borrowing our neighbor's mower just so I can tame the beast that is our front lawn. I've been considering picking up a cheepo push mower. But our lawn is kinda huge...yeeeaaah.
Also going to try to clean up the Flower Bed of No Return. We had our tomatoes in there at one point but they all died. This has to do partly with the pine tree in our neighbors yard than sheds needles into it..well at least half of it. The other half of the bed seems fine since every thing in the world desided to grow there after the rain..Yikes. So I'm going to find some hardy plants to put off to the side there. I found out that Hydrengias, Azalias, Daffodils and Tulips work really well in acidic soil that comes around pine trees. So I'll probably try some of those. Right now I know i can pick up some Daffodil bulbs at Home Depot. I just need to learn how to plant them.
I love rain but I'm happy to have the sun again so I can work in the yards...

The back yard..wow..going to need a machette, a bull whip and two Himilayan Sherpas to get through that mess though.