Wormy

The last two weekends we have been hard at work landscaping our backyard. Aaron brought in three truck loads of mulch and I planted various bushes and vines. We even built a vegetable garden and stocked it with tomato plants, bell peepers, basil, mint and parsley. I can't believe how much more time we are spending in our backyard since the improvements. It is finally a place we can enjoy. We are making plans to build patio covers next month, since our back yard is south facing and it gets extremely hot and sunny. Kids that come over even say "it's too sunny back there, I want inside". We have also justified the expense by how much the patio covers will cool the house in the summer. Since the cover will block out the sun it should reduce energy associated costs.

While we were planting Garrett found this worm and said he wanted to keep it as a pet. He put in the vegetable garden for safe keeping. That was the compromise, since he wanted to keep it in the house.