Happy Spring!

Spring has definitely "sprung" here in Northeast Georgia! Everything is turning green again and things are coming back to life! I'm calling this my favorite time of year!

We have been taking advantage of the warmer days these past couple of weeks by tackling a couple of yard work projects.  This bank has been an eyesore ever since we were married. We attacked it with a weed eater, two rakes and a shovel. Here are some before pictures...

 A lot of it was old juniper that was planted before Marshall bought the house. That was overgrown and little trees and honeysuckle had grown up all around it. It was such a mess!!!

 

 We hauled off three trailer loads this size. I never would have guessed that there was that much "stuff" growing up there!

This is partly after- I still have little stumps to remove and we have cleaned up along the fence (at the back of the picture) a little more since this was taken. We are going to plant grass on it soon, but for now we are gonna use up a small bit of it for a little garden with the help of my awesome neighbor!

 Something else I've done is dig up all of the daffodils that were growing hither and yon throughout our yard. I planted them along the fence line. I hope they come back next year!

 I also planted marigolds in my planters but sadly, they have already kicked the bucket. My neighbor said that marigolds were hard to plant so I am going to find something else this weekend to replace them with. Pixie liked them while they were still alive though!

I have been patting myself on the back quite a bit lately with all of the raking, shoveling and worm seeing I have done. I'm not much of an outdoorsy person, but I don't want to stay inside with the weather this nice! I have seen worms, grubbs, bees and even a snake and have not screamed once! *applause* *applause* *bows*