slowly but surely

Well, this project is coming along, though it's going slower than Jim or I thought it would.
these are our supplies. The white bags contain dirt. A helluva lot of dirt. Way more dirt than we need. Oops! The other 2 pallets have our rock- which I think will be not quite enough for what we are doing.

Here is our work- we aren't done with this flower bed yet- we still need 2 more layers of rock, we need to remove the clay (lovely texas dirt) and add the topsoil and plants that came in the mail yesterday!
Today, we woke up to rain. Lots of it too! Looks like we won't be working in the yard today. We were hoping it would stop so we could at least take the kids to the zoo but it is still raining so I guess not. With it being spring break- the idea of going to a museum with all the other 5000

kids that are out for spring break does NOT sound fun at all so I guess we are staying home today. Unfortunately the kids are trying to kill each other so an outing would have been good to distract them.

A lovely thing that happened yesterday while working in the yard- Sloane dropped a big rock on my finger and smashed it pretty good. My fingernail turned a lovely purple and it throbbed all.day.long. Finally last night I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep with it hurting so bad so I pulled up my friend Google and researched what to do- I had to lance my fingernail with a hot needle. Yucko! But wow, it really helped release all the pressure almost immediately! And now I have a neat little hole in my fingernail.