Weekend Wrap Up-The Garden Edition

Hi everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend.
It was a garden weekend for me.The weather was nice but not too hot; the bugs weren't too bad; and the blue sky and clouds made it nice to be outside.
Here's a page in my big journal that I use as more of a journal style scrapbook.

 If you wonder what those "blobs" are, they are little spots of microbeads that I glued down on the page.

I actually didn't make nay art this weekend, but this page has flowers and so it works for Mia's FLOWER challenge at Art Journal Journey

I had a busy weekend in the garden and needed a little help from the hubby. 

I've been wanting to fix up that little strip of land between the deck on the left of the photo and the white picket fence on the top. You can't see it in the photo  but within a few weeks it will (or would) have weeds about a foot tall and make it hard for me to open my veggie garden gate and get into it. I keep the veggie garden inside the picket fence which my hubby built for me because he says I keep a very messy veggie garden. But really it helps keeps animals out of it, both dogs and wild ones.

So my hubby rototilled the strip.

 Then I moved the  topsoil into the veggie garden and smoothed the remaining soil out. Maddie liked it because what is it about dogs laying in dirt?  But I wasn't quite done.

We have a pile of crushed gravel down in the  the driveway (that we use to fix the driveway)  so I shovelled and filled up the wheelbarrow, and the hubby wheeled it up and dumped it for me. Then I raked it smooth and repeated the process many more times.

And finally, it needed to be finished off with some stone I had bought. Well I didn't buy quite enough but anyhow, here's my new walkway.

I can now get into my garden much more easily, and I have a pathway down  into the bottom of our land that we don't actively use.  I think it should hopefully keeps the weeds down in this area.

This is that lower part of our property that we don't use but that  I showed you Saturday. But with my new walkway I can get down in this direction, and this is where I plan on putting up my beehives later this summer. (No bees until next year though.)

And I also managed to clean up much of my screen porch and set up my hammock. It needed to be vacuumed and the floor needed to be washed. I also needed to wipe down the furniture. In the winter we store all the outside things in it and then close it in with sheets of plastic to help keep that end of the house warmer.
I have a little floor painting touch up to do before I finish setting it up. One of these days I will get to it.

But I did hang my hammock.
And I spent a couple of hours Sunday afternoon lounging with a good book.

And watching the birds. My hummingbirds are finally back as are a pair of orioles.
I've still got some projects to do. More fun stuff. Flowers that need to be picked up and planted. My veggie garden needs some work.
But I am getting there.
This is the best part of this time year.
At least for me.
Thanks for visiting!
It is always much appreciated.

And see you later for T.