Gardening buddies

So we spent some time gardening today. These were my gardening buddies. I have Abby in her black and white stripped leg warmers and Nicholas and his dump truck.

Nicholas took all the clippings from the bushes and trees and put them into his dump truck and made a pile. I tried to get him to make a pile that was closer to him, but he wanted to take the clippings all the way across the yard in his dump truck to the one pile.

What you don't see is his pliers - those he brought out to help me cut. He would place them on a branch and go "snip" and then tell me he cut some branches. He would also use the pliers to grab branches and put them into the bag at the end of the afternoon.

Abby fell asleep shortly after we started. She has a pavlovian response to being outside - she sees the sun and she closes her eyes and goes to sleep. Unless, of course, you want her to do that. Then she stays awake.

So Abby slept for our 2.5 hours of gardening. But so it goes. Nicholas and I got a lot done.

Jon finished up later by pulling out the dead plants and actually cutting the grass. Now we just have to get new plants and put them in the holes where the old plants were.

Lowe's - here we come!