I'm Back From Under The Laundry Piles

As predicted, we had laundry to do this weekend.  Although, I sent Andrew off to Chicago with quarters and laundry soap and he did visit the laundry mat, so he has been learning the techniques of laundry!  I was reading on Pinterest that you should do one load of laundry per day to stay on top of the laundry rather than letting it build to be out of control.  That is fine in theory, but in practice our loads all seem to be ready at once.  Does anyone else have this issue?  Suddenly, you find that every pair of pants you own is in the laundry and you don't have time to wash and dry them.  That is a bit of a problem when that happens at 7:55 on a Wednesday night in our house.  Lately, we have been hanging all our pants up to dry.  I was having issues with pants shrinking when I ran them through the dryer, and Andrew's work pants kept ripping out.  Hanging our pants up to dry seems to be the best solution because we don't have as many issues any more; I don't have to wear highwaters!   

This weekend was a bit of a whirlwind with Andrew coming home.  Friday night we went to dinner and a movie (Star Trek) to catch up.  I honestly can't tell you what we did on Saturday and Sunday we did some errands and worked a little in the yard.  With all the rain we have been getting, I think we could probably mow every four days.  It only takes a few days for our yard to look like a pasture, and when you have a neighbor that is on top of it like ours is, that is a bit of a problem sometimes.  I got some weeding done in our yard while Andrew was mowing and planted a couple of new plants.  I'm already tired of weeding the flower beds and it isn't even June yet.  I think this is going to make for a long summer, what do you think?  I put some Preen down last year when we made the beds to keep the weeds from coming through and I have sprayed a couple of times with a weed killer, but it isn't keeping the annoying things away. 

Andrew had to run into work for a bit on Saturday, so I headed to Home Depot to look at flowers.  I was convinced that we needed some more plants to finish off the side flower bedz we did last year.  Unfortunately, I got to the store and had a total mind blank.  I found myself looking at about ten different varieties of ground covers and then realized I wasn't sure I had that much ground to cover.  I ended up coming home with only four plants.  Two ground covers I knew we had space for and two that needed to be added in on the front landscaping.  At the end of last growing season I was at Home Depot and they were getting ready to throw out what was left of their perennials.  The lady working in the garden center saw be buying hostas, and offered me a really good deal on them.  She wanted me to buy probably 20 to 30 hostas.  In hindsight, I should have gone for it because we have the space.  I think I did end up with about 10 hostas and added those into our side landscaping.  This year, I decided we had room for a few more, so tonight I ran to Lowes and picked up a few.  I have become rather obsessed with hostas and the different varieties.  If money were no object, I probably would have left Lowes tonight with about 15 different hosta plants.  Of course, we don't have the space for that many right now honestly, and that would have cost an arm and a leg.  I did come away with three or four hostas and three ferns I'm also excited to plant in with the hostas.  While I love the look of hostas, I also like to mix in some other textures. I need to get out one night this week and get them planted.  Once I get them in the ground and hopefully get some more mulch put down, I will snap a picture and post it up here.  For now, you will have to settle with a photo of what I hope our hosta area will one day look like!

 

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