Mornin!

We had a nice weekend. The weather is finally starting to warm up and today there was no frost on the ground, only dew!

DD had a friend over yesterday and they played with DS, too, so I was able to get some outside work done.  I always think, we don't have a lot of "gardening" to do, since most of the plants we have are perennial and they come back by themselves year after year. (I'm still amazed that they do this after the winter!)

However, there is still stuff to do.  In the back yard, we've had a fire pit, that had gotten quite unusable and overgrown with weeds. Also, when we did the back addition, I placed about 30 2x2 patio stones around it.  This was not a good place for them. Here's how the side of it looked last year in June. The patio stones are beneath the wood and the pit is just behind the side of the screened tent

So, I moved the patio stones last week to behind the little round bush beside the old picnic table (with a wooden ladder on it) to the right of the play house.  The pit is just in the middle of the grass behind the patio.

 I also moved the edger stones that were around the pit. They're going to go around the new front garden. Here are the funny spots they left. It seems the pit got full of dirt and so did the spaces around and in between the stones.  It was a neat design, but needed to be flattened down.  

Here's how it looks this morning.  I still need to put a few wheelbarrow loads of top soil on it and some grass seed.

I also worked on cleaning out the raspberries and trying to tame the overgrown honeysuckle plants. Here's a pic from last week, mainly of one honeysuckle plant.  We have two, and I found another piece with roots on it, so I'm now thinking I'll leave them and just use the "cuttings" for the front arbor.

Here's how it looks today.

 In the front, to the right of the cottage is where I put all the plants that were moved from the front garden to make room for the addition in Sep 2010.

Here's how it looks today after I cleaned out all the leaves yesterday.

Oh, and besides all the outdoor stuff, I couldn't wait to start taking apart the wingback chair....

:-)