Thursday Thirteen #17

Thirteen Things about My Recent Gardening Adventure 1 The first thing to know is that I am not a gardenener. 2. Much like the aspiring cook who thinks one can put salt or sugar in a recipe because they look the same, I really don't have a clue what I am doing with plants. 3. So, 2 weeks ago, I was a WalMart and thought that maybe I should get some pansies... 4. I got purple and yellow, because we are kind of Vikings fans (in addition to being Sooners). 5. I brought home the flowers, and felt pretty good about myself, envisioning a completely transformed front door area, alive with splashes of color. 6. I did not notice the clouds that were gathering... 7. Once home, todder and I took the flowers to the are in which they were to be planted. 8. We fought over who was going to use the shovel...she cried. 9. As I began to move rocks (the previous owners liked those decorator stones and used about 1.5 tons in all the beds of our front and back yard--ugh) to expose the dirt, I found that plastic that prevents weeds. 10. Under the plastic, I found a tiny bit of dirt and another 3 inches of rocks. I had no additional dirt. 11. It began to rain. 12. 2 weeks later, I finally had another opportunity to plant the pansies, which were all wilted and sad looking. 13. Armed with a bag of dirt, I pushed the rocks back...yes, now there is a big hill of rocks toward the back of my flower bed. And I planted those near-dead flowers. Darth (10 years old and having never seen flowers in our yard) commented how pretty they looked, As they lay horizontally on the dirt with the mountain of rocks in the background. And I watered those flowers as if they might be alive....Someone told me you can't kill pansies. We'll see. Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

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