My iPhone takes such pretty photos. This is my favorite.
A small pot of mums in my wheelbarrow planter out front.
I bought a bad of these tiger pumpkins at the 99 cent store.
The Mother of all Mums -
I bought these at Hobby Lobby a couple of years ago - They are metal.
Still needs something - maybe some straw.,.
This bench belonged to my parents - they bought their redwood furniture off a truck in our San Francisco neighborhood - 1960. They gave them to me when they moved to Tennessee and that was around 1988. I've had them ever since.
Every few years I had to pound some new nails and wood screws into them. The picnic table has been gone for a long time.
The fake pumpkin and the dolls I have had since my boys were little. Once I threw out those dolls and placed them in a donation box and then changed my mind.
I really can't decide if I like them or not. I think I'm just sentimental.
My outside table display.
Gorgeous!
The ground is so hard the stands won't go into the ground so I had to improvise.
Maybe some stray or hay in the pots...For the triple pumpkin sign, I had to dig in the hardened dirt and bury the ends of the stand in it, and placed some big rocks behind it.
My Sweet Gum trees are starting to change color -
I'll get some photos of them soon.
We're having 85-degree weather for the next couple of days but it will soon change. We have some winter rains forecasted and some low temperatures.
The air smells so sweet - no smoke makes a huge difference.
THE GARDENERS
The husband wanted to hire gardeners with his own money. I was not a part of the whole deal. So he tells me he is paying them, $180 a month. I find that to be outrageous. So I asked 2 friends who live outside of my county. Mary lives in San Carlos and she pays 120. Cindy lives near Sacramento and she pays $80. Monday I am going to get some estimates. It's not like we have this huge property. We have very little lawn area. They mainly just Mow, Blow and Go.
If you have gardeners, how much do you pay?
Frankly, I can't see it - that's why we have not had them before. He needed help and I am not much help anymore. I was okay with it plus it's coming out of his part-time paycheck but even so, he didn't check around.
With prices going up with everything - and the gardeners have done the bulk of the work we needed anyway with the trees and scrubs, I really think we can get rid of them. Like I said before, I am the cheap one and he spends money like we have it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.