okay i pushed it
okay
so what do you do in your lawn do you do it yourself or do you hire someone to do it
uh no we've been doing it ourselves for most of the time uh find that it's
really a little more economical and we have or i found that i have the time and i kind of enjoyed it over here in Texas i used to live in Arizona and it was very confusing very frustrating because i didn't have the
watering system and it was it was just too much work and not enough enjoyment but over here we get enough water automatically you know naturally as well have the automatic sprinklers and so it's a lot more rewarding
uh-huh
um-hum
yeah right
uh-huh uh-huh
so
well we do our own out here of there you know mow it ourselves and everything but um our water supply right now is bad we need rain badly
oh that's right
uh we can water here and Patterson i can water on Tuesdays Thursdays
Saturday and Sunday four days a week
um-hum is is that enough during the hotter times of the year
so
it was this last summer yeah
um-hum
uh now if it we don't get some rain they might limit it to not even four times you know
yeah yeah
but um yeah we do our lawn our you know mowing ourselves and everything and i
do our planting of bulbs and things for i can have some spring flowers
um-hum
and uh
yeah i i find that i've been doing a lot of perennial planting which i never did before and
um-hum
and it's been real enjoyable although i didn't do any this last fall because our past winters have been so cold um they'd freeze down and by the time they the flowers would
um-hum
come back to life it was supposedly the time to pull things out for the spring and summer planting
oh
so i was getting kind of disillusioned and tired and and spending too much money on something that was kind of uh more of a problem than it was rewarding so
um-hum um-hum
um i'm gonna try to wait now and just do the spring and summer type plantings and see how that
yeah
yeah we have quite a few roses i just uh we in fact we just pruned them uh way down and i uh just uh uh had to replace on of them so i just bought that yesterday and uh probably go outside today and plant that
you know feels
um-hum
but um i like to have the roses where i can have cut flowers all year long
yeah those are enjoyable
i even had uh roses on my table for Christmas dinner
oh did you
which was really pretty you know but um other than the roses i don't have too many flowers i plant gladiolas
um-hum
um those are nice
and those are always pretty but they get so tall and they they bend over so fast
uh-huh
you know
yeah yeah i haven't done much in in bulbs in fact i received as a Christmas present a a
a planter that had bulbs in it that we were supposed to go ahead and water at any time and
and after it started to sprout put in sunny window and it's it just grew like crazy but i don't have any flowers on it i don't know how long that takes or if there's anything i need to differently but
um-hum
hum
it's just nice and green right now
um-hum well is it that one of those Amaryllis
uh no i'm thinking white narcissus or something like a paper white paper flower or something
no huh
oh okay
uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh
and uh so i don't know
do you have a big yard
no not really and in Plano and most of the newer areas of Texas uh they have just the the minimum square footage for lots to where you get a little bit of a backyard we have a pool in our backyard and we did plan it to where we have
um-hum
some some play yard last over but it's
it's um you know very small but most of the houses here if you have a pool you don't have anything else in the backyard that's that's about the size of most of them
um-hum
yeah right right
um-hum um-hum
so um i guess we're kind of fortunate everyone looks at that with our yard at our yard with kind of a sense of awe like wow you really got you know some grass back there
um
um-hum um-hum um-hum well that makes it nice
and
yeah
well it's hot enough here in the summer time that we could have a pool but we don't have one
um-hum
you know but they are a lot of people that do have pools around here you know but we just we just have
yeah yeah
dogs and um and grass and uh you know the cement work and a little place that we made for a garden
uh-huh
uh yeah
yeah
um-hum
so we do have a garden you know
oh do you
it's just a small one you know but we had a lots of tomatoes and uh zucchini
oh
uh it's amazing it's amazing what you can get out of a little
uh-huh
you know it's probably about twenty by
i don't know
twenty by six something like that and it's amazing what you can you know how many plants you can plant in there
yeah yeah
but it was nice a few cucumbers
that's one part of gardening i haven't tried yet and i don't think this yard is a very
um-hum um-hum
