The poor pups had a late dinner tonight and they certainly let me know they were not thrilled it was late.  Gavin scolded me as I washed and refilled the water dishes.  This ritual marks dinner time in his eyes.  Patty ran from the kitchen to the living room several times.  There she’d sit in front of her dish stand for a second before returning to join Gavin in sassing me.  What does this have to do with buying mulch you ask?

     I finally cleared the mulch pile from the driveway today.  I moved seven wheel barrow loads of wet mulch.  I mulched the entire side garden, half of the garden under the Tulip poplar, and a bit of the back garden along the fence.  I didn’t finish until after seven and that’s why the dogs were disgusted with me.

     I figure we’ll need to buy about five bags worth of mulch to cover the parts of the gardens that I didn’t cover today.  Unless, the neighbor’s son just happens to have another truck load of mulch to get rid of, of course.

     Tired doesn’t begin to describe how I feel.  My legs burn, my back is sore, but I’m happy.  Tomorrow I’ll clean the house…yeah, sure like that’s going to happen.