Kawells in AL: Quick Update

In anticipation of a silence on the blog (nothing new, of course), and since I've got nothing else productive to do, here's a quick update.

Tomorrow (Sunday) is going to be a busy day. Early tomorrow afternoon, we'll head off to a combination piano recital/awards night. Now usually, the year end recital is held on a separate night from the awards, but everyone's schedules were so packed this year, that Mrs. Shugart decided to combine the two. After that (it should be around eight in the evening) we'll head off to Florida! There's a lot of preparing to do, and since Samford is in the middle of graduation, Daddy hasn't been home much to do it.

Meanwhile, there are several other projects we're wrapping up today and here are some pictures.

We've been working on these two beds for about a week! For those who don't remember, this area was once a place for a swing set, but we took that down recently, and it was just a area of dirt and rock surrounded by landscaping timbers. Well, Daddy and the boys built up these two triangular beds in the corners, we dug dirt out of the woods to fill them, and Mama's already got plants in them!

Those strange objects behind the bed constitute a make-shift fence to keep the dogs from getting in the cool, wet dirt. You can see Frisky still likes to sleep as close to it as possible!

You can tell that the new work is the yellow timbers. Mama's planted Thrift along the walls which, by next year, should fall down and conceal the wood.

The other project is setting up the new pool. We had planned to reuse last year's, but after it sprang a leak we had to get a new one. Still, the old pool stayed in place all winter, and had to be emptied of the collected rain water, dragged away, cut up and tossed in the trash!