Yard Work - Making it GREEN!

How can you pick a favorite color when there are so many fabulous ones out there?

My favorites:

Blue - absolutely top of the list!

Orange - well more of a peach

White

But green is growing and life and happiness that brings...

So green has to be in there somewhere.

Silver's favorites:  Yellow....and RAINBOW!

I agree - Rainbow 

Planting bulbs - for Mommy to see out of the kitchen and dining room windows - to see while we wash dishes and eat.

Giving our Swing set a coat of stain.   

All the girls helped.

I was impressed with River who stuck with this project from beginning to end!

Water.  Hoses.  Summertime.  With Johnny Jump-ups in the background on the right.  (They also remind me of my grandma.  That and orange trumpeter flowers.  My memories of grandpa's flowers:  tulips, hyacinth and pansies.  My Dad is pussy willows, fruit tree blossoms and forsythia.)

Colt putting in the sprinkler box

Just behind the sprinkler box, along the fence:  I have LOVED this planter box - Shado got it for me for Christmas - It really kept the plants from drying out too much and they bloomed ALL spring/summer long!

I was SO impressed with Colt.

He was hurrying gluing all the pipe we laid out for him together...limited sunlight, store hours before it closed, etc. and he slowed down when River wanted to help with the glue.  Took considerably longer, but made a memory and a bond between them even stronger than blue glue!

Colt always has a toothpick with him.  Above:  green plackers!

River blowing into the sprinkler pipe.  It was several full-day projects and the girls got creative with the long and short pipes.  

Ice cream break!!

Sprinkling the grass seed - we pretended it was magic fairy dust - like Tinkerbell has!

They pretended they were fairies flitting around scattering seeds

VIDEO:  Silver sprinkling seeds 

1st we sprinkled grass seed on the whole area.  Then drilled the holes.  Put great soil in the bottom of each and then put a "plug" of zoysia grass in each.  Zoysia is a grass that is heat and drought tolerant, but it spreads and takes a while to get established.  The other grass comes up quickly but requires more water.  This was a good mix.

VIDEO:  Silver drilling the holes

River the artist - drawing trees

Silver with hat and shovel - I believe in kid-sized tools to do the job!

Summer and Silver digging pipe trenches

Summer working SO hard!

I love her pink snow/work gloves!

Summer

Watering the Johnny Jump Ups

Paca's dog next door had puppies - oh what fun it is to play with pups!

River and Silver in a deep hole!

Summer River and Silver

Summer is always the first to try things.  She was the first in the deep hole!

Silver

Silver with her "ducky" feet - Gloves on her toeies!

Aaaahhhh!  There is nothing better than green grass.

Except for maybe mowing that green grass :)

Fruit Trees getting established

Almond * Cherry * Apple * Apricot * Pear * Plum * Peach * Nectarine