Tackle It Tuesday #1

This is my first Tackle It Tuesday, but I love the idea! I had several projects in mind today, but since the weather was so good, I decided I would "tackle" my flower bed - get it ready for spring! I've been meaning to clean it out, get rid of all the dead stuff in it and get the leaves out, but just had not taken time to do it. So that was my project today.

(Sorry, I accidentally deleted all my pictures of my flower bed)
Here's the before:

Here's the after(with my little helper):



I felt like I accomplished a lot today, even though I didn't get much housework done! My granddaughter, Addy spent the night with us last night and we had a busy day today! First thing this morning we got up and went to my brother's house to feed his horses and his cat. He and his wife are in Hawaii this week for their anniversary, so Elizabeth volunteered to feed while they are gone. I had driven Elizabeth's car back to my house yesterday after spending the afternoon with her, so she had no way to get to his house to feed today. Addy and I decided we would go and feed for her.

As we were driving out to feed, my youngest brother - whose wife just had a baby on Friday - called and they were in town and wanted to see if I could keep their two boys while they loaded up some of the boxes from their house here to be taken to their new home. I jumped at the chance to keep the boys. We haven't had a baby in our family for awhile, so I enjoyed every moment that I spent holding him - the entire time I had him! I, of course, took a few pictures of the baby, big brother and Addy while they were with me.


Shortly after they left, it was time to pick up Chance from school and then we went to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things. Of course, those few things turned into more things and we ended up staying there for a couple of hours. I finished the flower bed once we got home and I was so thrilled to get it done that I'm now ready to tackle the other two flower beds. The one I did today is the biggest, so the other two won't take as long.

I've been fighting "the blues" since my Mom died last month and working in the yard was the best medicine I could have received. It felt great to be out in the sun, doing something useful again!

My first "Tackle It Tuesday" was a great success and I look forward to next week!