Our two new babies

We are having some fantastic

~weather~

finally...

perfect for

~planting~

Remember these guys?

Here they are..

the first night

at their new home...

The spot one of them needs to be

is where the dead flax is

~voila~

Not very many flax

made it through our nasty

winter

Ok that one is in now

on to the next

Poor dead flax

has to go...

this wasn't as easy as he thought

I was driving...

we were doing some

heavy duty logging here

Yeah The Hubs is the

~Man~

Can you see the twins?

Now the other flax

has to go

Double Yeahh!

Now we are working on finding another

light fixture to match

this isn't easy

Cuties huh?

I can't wait for fall

they say this is what

they will look like!!!

Are you planting and weeding?

It feels so good to have a few

nice days to get outside!

Date Night is totally different now..

We have had a little bit of a problem with

~date night~

They have closed down

~Borders~

it was truly our special

~place~

I would read magazines for hours

 the Hubs would grab a book..

and we would both have a

~latte~

We could go any night of the week,

he always bought a book..

I rarely bought a magazine..

I always told him I was a

~cheap date~

he loved that about me...

Well what are we suppose to do now?

We  don't have another bookstore in our area

so what else do we enjoy...

plants!!!

We have been checking out the nurserys

in our area

for a place to call our own..

a great one is in a little town called

~Sumner~

this is where the Hubs grew up...

~The Windmill Gardens~

That's our cute little red car with the top down

well actually it has no top to put down, but

~remember we are on a date~

I get to go where I want and he gets to

get me there how he wants..

They have all sorts of interesting things there

Shopping within shopping

lots of good inspiration

A great little restaurant

Oh my this was good

On a date he will let me stop anytime I want

to take pictures of interesting stuff

Mt Rainier was out in its

full glory

he doesn't even holler to

~hurry up~

But this car has no room to bring home plants...

and they were a bit pricey...

again I am a

~cheap date~

Well yesterday

I took him out on a date

to the nursery I discovered recently

not far from our home

Rodgers Country Nursery & Gardens

One of my favorite gift stores

Country Wishes

with great prices

and always a big sale room

oh this place is heaven

They state that they were

~green, before green was in~

everything organic there

We were big Miracle grow users before...

now we know that our plants  will be

much better off and will last much longer

if we use organic

Remember Chris

..The gal who came out to help

us plant the fountain area

She set us straight...

 we are just so in awe of her

~creativity and knowledge~

yesterday while on our

~date~

we got some trees

from Chris

it was pouring rain so hard they spent their

first night in the garage

these are to go on the outside of the stone

at the entry

This winter the flax didn't make it

so we thought a short tree

on either side would

look nice

a Japanese dwarf maple

~acer palmatum kamagata~

is what we liked,

Chris agreed it would do fine there..

and not block the view

It will be bright orange in the fall

and not get any bigger than 4 feet tall

~Isn't this beautiful~

I can't wait for fall

So it seems

we have now found 

~our new spot~

and

 I'm not the

~cheap date I used to be~

I hope Tracy & Chris

don't get sick of us

We wouldn't go anywhere else

for plants, garden advice or

~date night~

Oh and they love our dogs..

~Bonus~

Sushi's first week

We have a baby in the house

This little guy has so much personality

not to mention the loudest

scream I've ever heard out of a dog

this is not a bark it's a

~scream~

you think he is being attacked

or something dreadful is happening

~the breeder warned us~

and this little guy is so sad

I mean he has been moping around here for this last week

they say it takes 2-3 weeks

for him to adjust

Sushi idolizes Spanky

"please, please, play with me"

I can just hear him say as

goes around and around Spanky barking

Spanky won't even look at him

yesterday while outside helping me with

~yard work~

he was able to get near Spanky

for the first time

This is Spanky's favorite hang out

with the invisible fence boundary

this is as far down the driveway that he can go

and he will sit here for hours

watching over his

~kingdom~

or lay down....

this was so cool to see

Sushi imitating him

But after getting ignored

Sushi

 helped me weed the

ajuga

This stuff is so pretty

but what a grower...

it takes over everything

We have this funny little area in the driveway

cut out of the concrete

~for planting~

still wondering if it should stay or go

I hang my baskets here every year

these are my newly planted ones

they have a way to go...

In the fall I put my cornstalks there

The the hanging baskets

make such a pretty statement

from the street below

and sometimes the roses get

~spectacular~

and some years they don't

Some years the peonies bud

and some years they don't

This area is what I see out my kitchen window

so I would like for it to be

~spectacular~

We had a landscape architect

come out to give us suggestions

and he said to get rid of it

so I am trying to decide if

~I want it at all~

not unlike my feelings about getting a puppy

remember this was the Hubs idea, not mine...

but after this week of

 potty training, and sleepless nights

that puppy has gotten ahold of my

heart

now if Spanky will just

get onboard...

oh and Sushi was not the only one getting

~ignored~

usually he will sit in the Hubs lap

not this week

he took up space in the other chair!