The Great Mushroom Move of '14

It amazes me, constantly, my ability to make mountains out of mole hills. Its quite a talent and I seem to be perfecting it with age. Well I have done it again. Finally, I moved the Pinterest mushrooms, and I like where they are now. They look like they belong. Took seconds to actually to do but hours of dithering/yapping about where to actually put them. They started here, by the back step, up against the fence. They were fairly invisible and looked sadly out of place. This first move was just a celebration of the fact that they got moved off the kitchen table and out to the yard.

They have now been moved here, by the new patio, by the ferns. They look like they should be there, in the cool damp soil, out of danger and yet visible. I am happy with this choice of placement.

I like these silly little mushrooms. They tickle me for some reason. So easy to make with recycled vases and bowls. Cute and slightly tacky but I love them.

I also had another grand idea, a money saving one at that. I have this space by my house that is not wide enough to get a mower into and turns into a weed jungle the moment my back is turned. The Banker had cleaned it out so nicely for me when she was here doing the patio. The weeds were as high as the fence but she got it all out of there. Since that was done I did not want it to grow back. I had always, ultimately, wanted to put gravel in there, over plastic, to keep it clean and tidy. I am finding that my finances are being pulled in several ways at the moment and  the money is not stretching as far as I would like it to. Buying gravel is not making the necessity list at this time but I did not want to have to re-clear this space. What to do??? I had an A-Ha moment.

Two shower curtains from the dollar store were laid down first. This may not totally stop the weeds but it will slow them down.

KitKat gave me bags of wood chips from her yard to put under my lilacs at the front some time ago, long enough that I had sort of forgotten them. They have been on my veranda long enough to become invisible. I decided that I could use them back here, as I already had them on hand and get more wood chips later for the front yard. Problem solved. Today I spread the chips out and this awkward space now looks like this:

So at a total cost of $2.00 this space has been seen to and hopefully will never again look like a weed jungle. I should be able to access the air conditioner now without being covered in burrs. This makes me happy. Slowly the back yard is getting done. Yet another job that took moments to actually go but hours of thought and talk to accomplish. Mountains out of mole hills!!!

The shed still needs to be painted and the mosaic stars and moon hung. The bench needs to be painted and the flower bed replanted but its coming. The back yard is  starting to look like my vision for it. If I keep picking away it will come......picking, dithering, yapping, putting off............you know the drill.

Toodles
Linda