Our little garden

Let the season begin!! I have been doing so much yard work lately, and I really do like it. I pulled about about 75% of our raspberry bushes, established the garden area in the back again, cut the rose bush WAY back, pulled dead canes out of the left over raspberries, planted squash and zucchini (they look sort of sad right now), planted strawberries and put together the baskets for the front of the house. We'll see how everything turns out...our soil is so sandy and I added topsoil, but it still looks pretty dry. It's worked in the past so I'm hoping for the best.

The dogs are officially mad at me. I blocked off their "special" little space where they go to roll around in the dirt and used it to plant some wild flowers and some strawberries. Pike was so upset about it yesterday morning that he went outside and looked at the little gate thing and walked right back inside. It's has been hard to keep the grass nice...we have pactches of really thick nice grass and patches of brown. The dogs make it hard to keep seed down and wet because they walk on it and pee on it, etc. and I think I'm just too lazy to walk them every time they have to go. Pike has this really bad habit of going out to the yard, rolling in the dirt...and I mean full body roll... and laying in the sun. He looks really cute covered in dirt and soaking up the rays, but then he comes in and shakes it all off!!! WHAT?!