Planting Gardens

Front Garden

This is Melanie our new Frog!

 I sit on my back patio and think about all the things I want to plant.  How I want each section of my yard to look.  I realize it will take 10 years to get this yard the way I want it and I also think I might move before I am finished!  We did a garden in the back last year, and we did the garden in the front this year.  I am trying to plant mostly perennials so they come back every year.  Sure will save time and money if I can plant things that will come back year after year.

Progress LOST!

I got a call from the builder today after he spoke to the architect and he felt like my center with the parking lot would be about $100,000.00 MORE than what my budget is.  So I said... NO NO and can you say HELL NO!  So they are both at the drawing board again trying to get it right!  I explained that I handed him a drawing of the center with everything I needed, and that he could tweak it... but it was proof it could be done!  So... now I am waiting... AGAIN!  Lord help me!

Progress Made

1st draft... before changes
made...more to come
with final plans!

Got to finally meet with the architect on Friday and got some things cleared off the table.  Fun to sit in a coffee shop and sip on coffee while looking at some amazing drawings of what could be my future.  I have a better idea of my plans now, even with him adding things I will have to take off... I am sure.  I flip flopped his drawing to make more sense for me and I will get to met with the builder tomorrow.  All and all its moving ahead with some steam... although not fast enough for me really.  We have 15% down, if they keep in my budget... the architect is getting "excited" with his creativity lol, and I might have to hit him on the head.  Hoping to have final floor plans tomorrow and some idea of the cost.  I am sure I will have to make some adjustments so I can afford it, but still ready for some end results.

No Tolerance for Stupidity

People need to learn to love...
not tolerate,
not negotiate...
but love one another.  You can not have a christian heart and not love.
If you judge, ridicule or in anyway discriminate against someone because they do no believe in what you do...
then you are a sad...
hypercritical..
pathetic
excuse for a human being. 
Just saying!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/ellen-degeneres-one-million-moms-jc-penney_n_1262623.html

Strange Thing This Grief

I lost my father in November.  Strange thing, this grief... Where did it come from?  Where does it go?  It shows up out of the blue and then lays doormet for weeks.  I don't doubt my love for him or how much he meant to me... or even the fact that I miss him all the time.  But I do feel weird that I am not struck by constant numbing grief that binds me to the point of incapacity.  I feel guilty for not feeling that way, yet I feel sane for it.  I knew what type of man he was and how he would want us to behave.  Maybe that is what I move to.  Maybe knowing that he would want us to all continue to live successful lives and enjoy our time with our family and friends is what has me motivated to move forward every day.  Maybe the thought of staying still scares me more.  Strang thing this this grief.