Bed of flowers!

As you may (or may not) recall, my battle with yard weeds started 3 weeks ago. I saw some improvement 2 weeks ago, but was still super embarrassed about having absolutely no curb appeal. Here's a quick lil reminder of how my (non-existent) curb appeal looked like:

Not pretty. At all.

Yesterday, Empire Landscaping made me a proud home owner by giving me this:

Y'all, I'm so excited about our flowerbed!! I could smell the fresh mulch when I opened my front door (I have a weird obsession with smelling wood at Home Depot or any lumber yard really). They planted Indian Hawthornes, Nana Nandinas,

an assortment of perennials

and 2 knockout roses

*tear* It's.so.beautiful!! And it's super easy to maintain so no more weeds in my flower bed. Ever!!! Muahahaha!


Now back to getting my washer into operating matter. I wonder if the landscaping people found any buried money??? Even if they did, they'd probably would keep it to themselves huh? D'oh!!   (>_<)

Battle of the Weeds!

As you (may or may not) recall, I was dressed in a Tomb Raider outfit a couple weekends ago to tell the damn weeds who's boss on the house grounds. What? You're calling my bluff on the weeds? Oh. You mean the Tomb Raider outfit? Fine fine fine. So I wasn't, but why you always gotta be bustin mah bubble?!

Any way, I mentioned how the broad leaf weeds started wilting shortly after the spraying rampage, but the clover looking ones stood their grounds and was ready to battle it out with me. I also mentioned I'd go back and hose it down some more, but I never got around to doing that. Oops! While pulling into our driveway, I noticed the ugly green foliage was missing. I did a double take when I got out of my car, and sure enough, they're dead! O.M.G y'all - I literally did a happy dance right then and there. Wanna see? Wanna see? Wanna see? Okay! See!

I need to pull them out so they don't grow back

Yay for no more weeds in the back! Now onto the front...

When I walked into the house, I found these two cuties chillaxing in our guest bedroom. Apparently, I didn't lock Callie and Scout's crate well when I left for work yesterday morning.

No damage was done unless you call relaxing a crime!

Weekend Recap (Mar 12 & Mar 13)

This past weekend was productive - for me at least (I'm only productive when the hubby's not home. Otherwise, I'm the laziest bum bum ever! Weird right?). The hubby went clay shooting with Andrew on Saturday so I ran (okay, not literally run there. I drove there.) to Home Depot to inquire of yard products to tackle the weeds (the garden weeds, not the puff puff mmmmthisshitisgood weed. Although I'm sure I would need to get rid of those as well if they showed up on my property...). When we first purchased our house, the previous owners had let their flowerbed shrubs outgrow and become shrub-trees.

I promise our house is behind the forest of trees shrubs

Last year, we chopped down the overgrown trees shrubs and hired some tree experts to grind down the stumps so that we could make our flowerbed all pretty and be proud of our work.

Who doesn't want a house with a pretty curb appeal

filled with colorful perennials and pruned shrubs!

Unfortunately, we got lazy and let the donut shop run our lives so instead of planting pretty flowers and new shrubs, the (garden) weeds beat us to the punch line.

Weeds = not pretty. at all.

So off to Home Depot I went to put my green thumb to work. Since weeds are already infiltrating our yard and flowerbed, fertilizing with pre-emergent wouldn't do. Therefore, I consulted the Home Depot garden experts and with a sly smile and some "follow me to the good stuff" acknowledgement, they put these bad boys in my cart.

Supposedly the good stuff - we'll see!

So I headed home with the secret weapons (the weeds won't even know what hit 'em! muahaha!) and put on some weed combating clothes similar to this:

Gotta show them weeds

who's boss man!

Okay, so in reality I was in gym shorts, a tshirt, and tennis shoes, but can't a girl fantasize about being Angelina Jolie in a rocking body and doing killer secret agent moves?? I got to reading the instructions and (while pretending to be Angelina Jolie) began drowning the weeds in pesticide! The container said "visible results in 6 hours" so when I went to check on them the next day, the broad leaf weeds wilted, but the shamrock looking ones were still thriving! What the heck?! Maybe I need to give them a bigger dose of the weed killer meds? I'll do that later tonight, and report back with the results. Once all the weeds are dead and pulled, we'll actually plant something this year! Woot woot! Pretty curbside appeal, here we come!!

Sunday was dim sum with some friends after the shop - YUM!! And we zonked out at 5pm until Monday morning. We can hibernate like koalas if we're tired enough. This past Sunday was definitely one of them!

How was your weekend and when are you most productive? Any recommendations on how else to kill these darn weeds, especially the shamrock/clover looking ones???