Partay!

We've been busy getting ready for a birthday party next Sunday. Jeff's dad, George, is going to be 90 on April 22 so we thought it would be a great idea to have a party.  It will be a Sunday afternoon open-house type of party and it will be a nice chance for some of the relatives and old friends who don't see each other that often to get together.  I also knew that having a party would be a good incentive to get around to some of those projects that have been put off.  One project that Jeff already finished was painting the front door on the inside.  He's currently cleaning the kitchen tile floor grout and resealing it.  I've been working on my front yard annual flower bed.  Last week I pulled up the pansies, weeded and then we put down a weed killer.  We decided against using landscape fabric.  You need to cover it with mulch like wood chips and I don't want to have to do that. It's okay for a permanent planted area but I dig this area up twice a year for spring/summer and then fall/ winter annuals so having chips would make it to difficult for digging... so we'll see if just the weed killer helped. I took a photo but it looks much nicer in person but here it is anyway.  The front row is yellow and orange marigolds and behind that are three different colors of gerbera daisies.

I have a little temporary fence up to keep our neighbor's small dogs from trampling them.  They like to use our yard as their potty.  Not really thrilled with that but they always pick up after them and other than that, they are great neighbors.  After a rainy Friday, we have great weather on the horizon which will be nice for the party.