Mrs. Snake

Here's Mrs. Snake in all her snakey glory. She's been living in a hole in the outer wall of my house between two bricks.

Usually, she just sticks her head out, but today when I got home from church she was out getting a tan while freaking me out. From the size of her head (the one that sticks out between the two bricks), I didn't think she was so long, but she is. I saw how long she was as she tried to climb up the wall before going quickly into her hole.

I'm guessing the little baby three inch snake that Andie had killed a couple of weeks ago belonged to this lovely one. And yes, the baby was inside when I found it dead ... probably played to death with by Andie!

Mr. Lizard is back!

Here he is.

Mr. Lizard is back. Evidently, the front yard is much nicer than the back yard now. Usually the lizards would stay in my backyard where the trees are (I've heard he's a tree lizard), but I guess they like the new layout of the front yard because here he was today. He was lounging on one of my rocks. I guess he thought it wasn't as hot today since we had sort 0f some rain today and clouds.

I hope I see him around more. I tried to get closer to take more pictures, but he didn't like that one bit and ran away.

(Click on the photo to get a better look at Mr. Lizard looking back - I saved the image as a pretty large one so you can get a better view of him.)

Here's the dirt.

So, in the last two days I've put 960 pounds of dirt in my back yard. This is per the structural engineer who checked out my house a couple of times (before and after the foundation was fixed).

There's something about working with dirt that is just great. I don't know what it is, but I really enjoy it.

I also have put down mulch. A lot of mulch. I think I like working with the mulch even more. There's something about the warm mulch in my bare hands that is just earthy and lovely.

Hurray for dirt and mulch!

Oh yeah, it's helping my foundation too!

April Showers bring April Flowers - Peony

Well, even though I lost almost half of my buds off my only flowering peony bush/plant, the ones that survived are blooming!

Because of the placement of my other two peonies, they won't be blooming anytime soon because they need to be moved ... at least one of them needs to be moved anyway. I have some work ahead of me.

I have lots of plants to move because my swail is going to be redone and there are still lots of plants in there. Also, there are plants in other places when the dirt out of the swail was moved.

Maybe I'll have some time this weekend to work on my yard!