I FLIP for Spring -- literally
I LOVE working in my yard -- especially all the stuff that leads up to the vegetable garden and summer flower beds. I've spent several days the last few weeks cleaning out my flower beds, raking and trimming debris leftover from fall, and fixing some bare spots in the lawn. My seedlings are growing indoors and I've got several more yard improvement projects planned. Today I went with my father-in-law to buy a truckload of compost to put in my garden before it gets tilled tomorrow. I've been looking forward to this all week because I love the physical labor involved and I certainly need the exercise. I even had to be bossy with my father-in-law and insist that he let me push the wheelbarrow loads (uphill all the way back) to the garden -- mostly because I wanted the exercise for myself, but also because I wanted to make sure they got dumped where I wanted them. With one wheelbarrow load to go, I was casually walking back to the front yard with the empty wheelbarrow (dow...
