Keeping a house happy is never inexpensive

Keeping a house happy is never inexpensive
                        

Most new houses require at least some landscaping; our new place requires lots of landscaping. I mean we are beginning from square one.

Being a lover of gardening and plants, this suits me just fine. However, our house has planted herself on clay. Wet clay is slick; dry clay is super hard. Trying to plant a couple of trees was an exercise in total futility. I couldn’t even get the shovel into the ground, much less dig a hole.

Fortunately a very nice fellow wandered by and got that hole started for me. With a bit more scraping and hacking, I managed to get that poor tree planted. Now with the aid of my Taller Half, we have two young trees and one small bush planted firmly in the ground.

One or two day lilies have found their permanent home, and only several trees, several bushes, border grass, more day lilies and some lovely flowers await their forever home.

Houses enjoy having their surroundings beautified. Some want large formal gardens; others are happy with a flower bed or two. Our place wants flower beds all around her, plus a big garden in her front yard. She also has let us know that she wants the same for her child, the shed.

This is all a bit more than we had planned on this summer, but as we all know, keeping your house happy is the wisest way to go. So next week we break clay around the shed. Fortunately for us, the shed is small.

Keeping a house happy is never inexpensive, and all this landscaping is getting rather costly. Of course our place cares nothing about costs because she doesn’t pay the bills. But despite being very demanding, our new place also is very comfortable, and we’d like her to stay that way. So with shovels and hoes in hand, we garden.


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