I had a really nice Valentine's Day. Hubby made me a silver bracelet with a heart on it. It's beautiful. It's something that I can wear everyday for any occassion. I just might end up wearing it everyday! I ordered him a box of chocolates from this chocolate shop in NC that we went to one day. They have really good chocolate with out-of-the-ordinary flavors. For dinner I made Chicken Marsala and a nice salad with an Italian dressing that I made. Turned out pretty good. I've never cooked with wine before, but I've always wanted to try. I'll have to find more recipes. I was going to make a cake for dessert, but his mother had made a cake and gave us a couple of slices. It was okay, not my favorite. It had way too much almond extract. I'll make my cake this weekend.

I hope to be able to get some things done in the garden tomorrow. I've already cleared everything out in the front garden. Right now we just need to get some black landscape fabric and rake up the rocks that are in the front walk. I think this garden is going to be a challenge because directly in front of the house is all shade for about 6 feet, then it's full sun. So part of the flower bed will be full shade plants and flowers and the flower bed along the front walk will be full shade for about two feet and then the rest of it will be full sun.  We have a north facing house, so 6 feet in the front of the house never see sunlight except when the sun rises and sets. Makes for difficult planning! I know right off the porch I'll be putting in a lot of hostas, but I want something that will bring color, too. We used to have these mini boxwoods but they got infected with some kind of scale stuff and we just got fed up with them and pulled them out. Anyway, I've got some ideas, but it's just going to take a lot.

We decided what we are going to do with the veggie garden. Hubby's mother wanted us to spray weed killer on it because it has become terribly infected with so many weeds, but I told hubby that I do not want to use any chemicals. I'm very adament about that. I was thinking of just tilling, let it sit for a couple of weeks, and then repeating the processes a couple of times. That would make for a late garden. Didn't want that. Hubby has decided that we are going to burn it, till, burn again, till, and burn one more time. That's basically the same concept, just hurrying things up. I hope it works. I told him that after that is done, we are going to put permanent beds in and make permanent walk ways. We are going to need a lot of mulch for this. I've been saving my newspapers all year so I can use them to help control weeds. I think this will work. I also told him that we need to get a hot compost going. The compost pile we have now is a nice one, but it's in the shade so it takes forever to break down. We are going to find a place to start a pile in the sun.

Phew! I have so much to do! Can't wait for Spring to get here!!

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