Preparing for a big day

We have been anticipating a very big day that is quickly approaching. It's the green waste pick up day! In Albuquerque we have a trash can that is provided by the city that we roll out to the curb once a week and everything must fit inside it with the lid closed. If it wasn't for the yard work it wouldn't be a big deal, because we typically make on bag of household trash and on bag of recycling a week. In Oklahoma they would pick up twice a week and pick up anything you put next to the can too. They only do green waste pick up days twice a year. Last year we didn't know about it, so we would work really hard one day, then spend a couple weeks getting rid of everything. We have been spending a couple house each weekend doing the projects that will generate the most trash.

Here is a view of one of the corners of the yard just after we moved in...very over grown.

Here is the current view. We still have lots of work to do. Hopefully we will be ready for sprinklers and some grass this fall or next spring, for part of the yard. I'm planning on getting some drought tolerant plans to put in the L-shaped flowerbed, but would like to have a drip system there The tree isn't as thin as it looks, the leaves are just starting to come out.

Outside our living room window the peach tree is looking good. Last year we didn't get a single peach, because the winter was too hard, but I'm hopeful this year with all the buds on it.

Our next door neighbor girls have started hanging out with us a lot. They "help" us walk the dogs most days. This weekend we played soccer, frisbee, and blew bubbles with them. A couple weeks ago I told the girls that we couldn't play on the weekend because I had to go to Amarillo to try on my wedding dress. Ever since then they have been obsessed with wanting to see my dress. I brought my camera out to show them my dress and showed them pictures of what our cakes looked like too. This weekend they were jumping on their trampoline and talking to us while we worked in the yard and asked If we were married yet. Now they always want to get their pictures taken when they come over, since they saw my camera. Here's a picture of the girls hanging out on the dog canopy in the back yard loving on the dogs...and everyone is smiling and looking at the camera.

Lizzie loving on Bailey