Congratulations Heather to you and DH and Dear Brothers too! Nothing that is a bigger blessing in life than healthy children. You must be feeling amazingly well to be thinking about gardening this year. [g] Three boys, wow, what a nice family you have. How is it being the only girl in the house? lol Enjoy your first growing season getting to know the new member of the family. DH is a keeper for sure, for thinking of a wheelbarrel for Mother's Day! :-) pm2

After having work down on our front and back landscaping here for the last two months- those rocks look pretty cool! What a great MD idea. I asked DH if we could NOT go out to do something and just stay home instead and enjoy our gardens at home instead. We have lots of roses and other plants too in pots we can plant up that weekend. He made me a MD tea party (cooked all the food and set it up himself) one year and we'll do that again as we all enjoyed it so much. we're a tea party family! Here are some pics of our recent landscaping projects on my Picture Trail. The gazebo in our front yard was our Valentine's Day Wedding anniversary gift to each other. I think the new front yard and back patio are our Mother's Day and Father's Day gifts -for a few years! careytearose Here is a link that might be useful: check out the Landscaping Projects 2007 album

It was a great weekend for me too. I got to meet Maria (shrty411) and her DH on Saturday when I went to her garage sale. My daughter and I bought several things and Maria gave us a "mosaicer's discount" LOL Then my DH and kids got me a double barrel glass tumbler, an economy-grade tile saw and they are also going to get me a grinder as soon as I figure out which one I want!!! Any help on what kind to get? I think I am going to have to go back through the old posts to get some information to help me decide. I've been hinting big time for the tumbler (you know leaving the Harbor Freight sale paper out and it just happened to be turned to the page with the tumbler on it, etc...) so I kinda figured they would get it for me but I never expected the grinder too! After I opened the tumbler my DS showed me the sale paper from Harbor Frieght and pointed out the same terra cotta fountain that someone (can't find the darn post to say who it was) recently bought along with their tumbler and said, "Wouldn't this be cool to mosaic mom?" Guess I'm training them well, huh? I'm already dropping hints about a ring saw for my birthday/Christmas gift...snicker, snicker Barb

Nice goody box Moni! Son bought me a silver bracelet with a charm that says I love you mom. daughter bought me a slim rose gold bracelet thst says The love between a mother and daughter knows no distance. Son also made a collage of pics of himself and his pup Katie that says we love you Ma. Daughter bought me these socks!!