In My Spare Time

You all know how much I adore nature and photography that seems to go hand in hand with it , when it comes to me.
I wanted to show you what I have been up to in my spare time.

Yes I am free everyday to do what I want but due to money like the rest of us I chose what I do accordingly.

I am a member of our local garden club I am sure I mentioned that a few times here.  You knew we sell plants to put back into our community so here is the latest project 4 out of 5 woman in our group did.  Not bad since most are 40-mid 50’s.

This is a shot of a downtown intersection I had moved the urn to in preparation for our Memorial Day parade.
When I placed it here after the winter plows were safely parked I had no idea how grown in and messy this spot  had become.
At our monthly meeting on the 13th it was decided we would tackle it weather permitting that upcoming weekend.
We went with shovels and rakes and trash bags too.

One of the woman in the club had borrowed her son in laws pickup to bring supplies.  We were all parked off the road in the dirt, and had been for hours when a renter in a home at this intersection gets in his truck and steps on the gas, punches it really and shoots across this busy intersection, with all of us woman working in, and proceeds to slam into the trucks drivers door WHAM!  He jumps out of his truck and proceeds to photograph where we were all parked.  I laughed at him and said “They talk about WOMAN DRIVERS!”  he got so angry, I was hoping he was drunk actually but it seems he is just not all there but still allowed to drive.  So I asked for the police to be called so we could continue to work safely.  A woman had just walked by his truck with her dog and we were going back and for with weeds, thankfully it was a truck that got hit.

So two officers arrive and the man points to ME lol what he doesn’t know is who I am and how the police know me as a hero and a hard worker.  His info was taken and he was sent on his way.  The police put out cones for us and put police tape alongside all our cars and trucks.  Then stood and  talked,  while we worked.

Now I have lived here since 1988 and know a few people who also call our town home.  So as we are working like crazy woman, up against the weather forecast, a local man with his own excavating company stopped to say hello to me on the side of the road and wondered when I had developed such a Green Thumb!
I reminded him all he never knew me as was a hard-working trucker , then so hurt after the wreck with the bus in 2000 I never had time and then I couldn’t move.
He asked if there were anything he could help me with and I asked if we could get a scoop of nice soil to really  turn this corner into a beautiful spot in time.  As we worked and tore out all the grass and weeds and junk from the area all this on a quiet Sunday morning he went off to church and his trucks worked all day on another project he was getting paid to do as a prior business owner I know those come first.  So as we completed the removal process and I loaded all the saved plant material we would place back into this area, the ladies loaded their tools into their cars and 3 of us made plans to come back at 6 PM.  Just before I took off Paul showed back up with his tri axle  dump truck with a wonderful amount of soil for us, he is good and good to me.  All the ladies had left when he showed up so him and I moved the urn out of the way and I watched him as he backed up and dumped his load of soil making sure no wires were hit or any dummies driving in behind him.

 

Looks good doesn’t it.

So we go back at 6 PM before rains come and begin to shape this pile and lay down strips of fabric to keep the junk from growing back so we can keep it looking nice.  We are too old to WEED!

The last of us here worked till dark laying the plants back in before they got to stressed.  I had watered them well when we had taken a 4 hour break but I did not want to lose one plant.

Above is what the area looked like the next day as JT and I drove over some left over mulch the Garden Club had at my home.
I snapped this before I laid down pick up truck runs of the mulch.  It had poured all night and it looked bad I was glad I did not wait till any others would be around to help.

This is heading down through our little town and finished intersection will be coming up on the left NEXT!

We will add a little punch of color for the summer but in the years to come these will fill in and the bulbs will add spring color too.

I sure hope the towns people appreciate these areas we work so hard on.

We do it all on plant sales and donations.

 

Thanks for checking out our town and how we plan on changing one corner at a time!