Maintenance

My energetic wife and I had the last two days off from work. Since we are not taking a vacation this year (have I mentioned recently that we are sending Ferri$ to college) we like to just take some time off together and putter around the house and yard.
While I was out raking the pea stone around the patio yesterday (yes… you need to rake your pea stone), I came up with an idea for a new HGTV show.

“How to maintain your new expensive landscape that was just installed by a design team, landscape crew and battalion of laborers if you can’t afford a full time gardener.”

Have you ever seen these landscaping shows? The ones where they put in pools, and ponds with fish, and patios that fill the back yard – surrounded by trees and exotic perennials from around the globe. Then they do those before and after shots and the place looks phenomenal …like for a week. Do you have any idea what it takes to maintain this look? Well you better not plan to be spending your time sipping cocktails by your new Coy pond – you’re gonna be doing a lot more than raking pea stone.