Verdant Verdemont

I moved this summer. And as a part of the new place to live, told the new landlord that I’d redo the garden. This involved removing all of the rock from the ground, replacing the ‘weed barrier’, and then putting the rocks back down. While all this was happening, I had to bang in a few new wooden edging panels and think about what plants I wanted to put in the flower bed.

These are the before (you can see the barrier, the overgrown, etc):

What’s funny is that when I started this process, I had a shovel and a tarp to one side. As I started working, I was by myself.

Within an hour, I had 2 children sitting on steps and watching me. Within an hour and a half this number was 4 with 3 more in and out as the work progressed. Picture me shovelling up a bunch of rocks, tossing them to the tarp and being questioned by kids over everything from what I was doing, to asking about flowers, to etc. Eventually, they asked could they help. Naturally, me being me, I sent them off to get permission from their moms, and let their mom know where / who I am and what I’m doing. They came back and suddenly I had multiple little helpers with small hand trowels, and a pair of shovels, eager to “play” in the dirt and have it be “ok”.

3 hours later, with the rocks and old weed barrier removed…the squares for the barbeque area in – and new rocks being put down by my roommate (who arrived home from work in time to laugh at my barrage of helpers):

5 hours later – everything was put back in place, and thanks to the neighborhood kids – I had a great welcome to my neighborhood. Check out the difference:

Update: Care boxes for Serve the City

This is just a quick follow up post to the blog post on Valentine’s day – where I participated in the creation of over 200 Serve the City Care boxes for the less fortunate.

All of our boxes delivered on Valentine’s Day. They went multiple places – which included a women’s refuge centre, drug rehabilitation centre, family support network and individual homes of elderly, disabled and disadvantaged people.

— One lady commented that it was the nicest gift she’d ever received!!

Now if that doesn’t make the universe a better place, I don’t know what does!

Ambitious Project (complete)

In the beginning of January, I learned that my friend Jules was pregnant with triplets – and due in March. I started crocheting in a hurry – trying to make 3 baby sweaters, 3 hats, and 3 pairs of booties, calling it my “Ambitious Project. The end of January, I was done with all the sweaters – and had started on the hats – as her due date neared.

Well, today, the hats are complete, complete with little embellishments and because Jules did have the babies early – they were born about 10 days ago (beautiful healthy little girls – despite being 6 weeks early) – I decided to pass up on doing the baby booties in favor of getting these in the mail last Thursday (I didn’t want to spoil the surprise). This way, my thinking is that the girls will have some new outfits – just in time to arrive home. They are nicknamed, in order of the photos in this post, Transitions, Spring Garden, and Petrol & Pink.

So, here’s my “completed” project – despite the fact that I haven’t done the baby booties – Jules (you beautiful baby momma, you!)- I Owe You 3 more of something for the girls – you just let me know what you’d like/need.

** Side note ** The time between the “update” and today’s post – I worked two 6 day weeks, and another 7 hours of OT at work, as well as saw the Rocky Horror Anti-Valentine’s day show, hit the Wax Museum, visited the Temple Bar Trad Fest Music festival, and started planning on a Charity night Mardi-Gras Party for the benefit of the local children’s hospital. I was told that I don’t ever “just sit still” – and looking back on the last two months – I think it’s true!

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Verdant Verdemont

Update: Care boxes for Serve the City

Ambitious Project (complete)