I love making my home beautiful

When we moved into this house, the landscape and yard were in serious distress. No one had been here to care for it (including water) in four months. I haven't had much time before this weekend to do anything except give it some water. This weekend I cleared out the flowerbeds, turned the soil, fertilized the soil and grass, trimmed back the overgrown bushes, cut the dead limbs from the very young oak tree that I wasn't sure was going to make it, dug up a 10 ft oleander (which was in a 3 ft stip of property), planted some zinnias in the flower beds, and mulched. What a huge difference! The lawn is still in need of serious re-habilitation, but that will just take time.

I put down some weed and feed yesterday morning and it rained really hard early this morning-dang it dang it dang it! I'm hoping it will do some good, anyway. I have some crab-grass killing spray that I am going to go work on in a little bit. After all the weeds die, there won't be much left to the lawn at all. But, after a few weeks, I can over-seed it.

Update on the large financial risk: The biggest part of that has not only ended well, but ended better than I ever could have hoped. The smaller part is still pending. What I did, for those of you following the saga, was I signed up for a third house payment. We had the one house in Dallas that is now vacant, the lease in Houston that we still had 9 months on, and then I signed a two-year lease on this place in San Antonio. The house in Houston was the biggest of the three house payments and not only has another tenant signed a lease on that place, but they want it now, so we will get some of our rent back.

I had the option of staying in the roach motel for 60 days, then working from the house in Houston until it leased, but I felt like God was telling me to lease this house in San Antonio (which I got one hell of a deal on, by the way) and to have faith that He had this planned out and I don't have to worry. So, I did just that, despite the absence of any kind of logic whatsoever. I am very controlling in my finacial life and that was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Having faith is not the easiest thing in the world to do, sometimes!!! But, like I told my Mom when she told me I was out of my mind, I will rely on my faith until it fails me.

Off to continue the beautification process...