Lawn And Gardening Trip

We ate breakfast and a little later left for Pauline and Brent's house. We drove the truck and as we pulled up to their house, Brent had already trimmed the bushes and was mowing and Pauline was cleaning up the trimmings in the landscape beds around the house. We talked for a few minutes and played with the dogs, then piled in the truck and went to the Smith's Grove trailer, that Brent had sold a few weeks ago, to pick up the last bit of junk left in the pole barn. We filled the truck with one load and took it to their house and went back and picked up the last load and then headed to Bowling Green. On the way Pauline said she was needing something to eat, so Linda suggested Applebee's. We stopped there and Linda and I had steak with shrimp, Stacey a nacho plate, Brent had steak and Pauline a big cheeseburger with fries. Brent bought for all of us. We drove to Lowes and Brent bought a couple lawn tools, potting soil, vegetation killer, a wheelbarrow, gloves, and some flowers. On the way back I stopped at Petco and Pauline went inside and picked up dog food for Pico and Poco. Back at the house, we unloaded the truck and the girls began cleaning out the landscape beds around the house while Brent and I drove the truck to a farm. The farmer sells mulch for $20 for a skid steer bucket load. He scooped up a bucket full and dumped it in the back of the truck and we were on our way back to the house. We assembled the new wheelbarrow and began shoveling the mulch into it and dumping the mulch into the beds. Pauline and Linda were spreading it out as fast as we could unload and dump the mulch. Linda was edging the beds while we were filling the wheelbarrow. We emptied the truck and the girls decided we needed another load of mulch, so back we went for a second load. Once back to the house we hurried to unload and spread the mulch as we could see lightening from a storm a few miles away. We finished the mulching and then shoveled the dirt from the edging into the wheelbarrow and Brent dumped it where he needed to fill in around his yard. We picked up the tools just as dark and a light rain arrived. We all set on their front porch and admired our work while it misted rain. After about a half hour, Stacey, Linda and I headed home and arrived a little before 10 PM.