Sunday, March 29, 2009

Black gold and white death.

Jeff got four loads of compost yesterday for our yard. The little neighbor boy across the street calls it "poo dirt". I call it black gold. I love compost. All of a sudden our yard looks finished again. I've worked really hard the last few weeks getting it cleaned up and trimmed, and transplanting things, and putting in pansies (yay --I found pansies in the spring! I never find them in the spring, and I usually don't have the time or money to buy them in the fall like I SHOULD, so I feel really lucky to have them, even though they are not blooming yet), but the yard still looked blah until we put it's black blanket on yesterday. I was thinking I was going to take pictures of it today to show you, until we walked outside after church at noon, and:








OK, I live in Utah, and I'm OK with winter, really. Don't love it, but I'm reconciled to it. The problem is when I've gotten all spoiled with a day of spring weather, and then winter comes BACK like pms . I can't handle it so well then.

4 comments:

Kelli said...

We call it "Poo Mulch" I love it. I just about cried when I walked out of church. I'm done with the snow. I knew it was going to be a problem when I checked the temperature before church and it was 49 and the forecast was for a high of 36. The "warm" before the storm, I guess.

Deja said...

Spring snow storms are just mean. So mean.

belann said...

But, soon it will be Spring, and the black dirt will show off the pansies nicely.

Kira said...

Do you use that instead of mulch? We had 3 inches in an hour. Lucky for us none of the driveway snow lasted!Uncle Drew says he never shovels after March 1st. We agree.