Visitors

The last two weeks have been a lot of fun. First off, Jim's mom came to visit. Our neice and nephew from Kalamazoo, Jon and Kristen, wanted to go to New Orleans for the jazz festival and so they dropped Lois off at our house on the way down. We had a wonderful visit and she left last week Sunday. This past weekend Sara flew up to visit. Chuck was gone to training and she needed a break. Great time to come visit us. This was her first time visiting our new house. Since Sara is a master at landscaping we wanted her to give us some advice on adding a little extra umph to our existing plantlife. We had been bragging to her about how nice our weather was...sunshine, blue skies and temps in the mid to upper 80s. A lot like her beautiful Florida weather. HAHA. The weatherman played a cruel joke on us. It rained the majority of the time she was here. Also, those wonderful warm temperatures? No, no...temps in the 60s, no sunshine...in other words...crappy! Well, we made the best of it. We didn't let pouring rain stop us. We just pulled out the umbrellas and carried on. In fact, the last nursery that we went to, the owner felt so sorry for us (we were soaking wet) that he gave us an additional 10 percent off of our purchase. Hey, memories are made of things like this, right? Anyway, here are some pictures of the finished product. It feels like a little oasis on our porch. We might add a little bistro table and two little chairs for the finished look.







Jim did such a good job hanging all our baskets and planter boxes and planting the other plants (in the rain, no less) while Sara and I went out and purchased flowers for the window boxes. All in all it turned out to be a great weekend. Fun times don't always have to rely on good weather. Sara, when I came back from taking you to the airport, I got out of my car, and the smell of honeysuckle permeated the air. Sorry you missed that.