...How Does Your Garden Grow?

First of all, thank you everyone for your well wishes and good thoughts for us to get this house. I can't tell you how you've carried me across a nerve wracking time.

We have put in our offer and now it's up to the owner to accept or reject it. He could wait and hope he gets his desired rental rate. If he chooses to wait, it's finished for us since we are quickly running out of time (it felt really flaky to tell the estate agent that we wanted to be moving in within the first week of January, but he knows our reasons and circumstances). Insert nail biting here.

So.... I promised pictures of the garden. It does need a mowing and trimming, the house has been empty a little while. Even so, I hope you see the magic. I wish I could draw the layout for you...
Near the back, you find little "paths" that lead off around other shrubs and trees. Let's go this way first....

past the apple tree...

I will make mountains out of molehills. Nothing worse than running through the grass to have your foot sink into one of these pesky holes.

...this path leads to a little bench (my bottom is shivering just thinking about sitting on this).

Another turn...

brings you back here

(yes, these pictures were on different days, the sun doesn't just pop out like this)

and that is just the left half of the garden.

You realize I am going to have a hard time sucking it up if this doesn't work out.

Enough about me, (stop laughing) what was the most fun holiday-related thing you did this week?