My Rose Garden, the new sandbox and Oscar

Since the moment we moved into this house, Kevin has wanted to put in a rose garden for me.  

Last year

we actually had the brick retaining wall built, and it was just waiting for roses.  

Here is the original post
of "Unfinished Business" 
and after reading this post
I realized some of these projects
actually got done and I should
update them...future post...

So... I ordered some barefoot

from J&P 

(a little late, I guess you need to order in June for January/February delivery) 

but missed my opportunity to buy barefoot locally.  

I did make a trip over to a local nursery

and did I score!!!  

They had just planted their bare root roses,

so they pulled them out, wrapped them up and I brought them home.

I am still missing 15, but I am much closer to a rose garden.

I have a wide variety of types and colors.

The nurseryman said I should

be looking at blooms in 6 weeks.

all of my roses were planted

with TLC by
the master gardener.

I even have some famous roses

you may know.

Where there's Ronnie...

Nancy can't be far behind.

I have plans of inviting 

Cary Grant to my rose garden and I'm sure if he comes Grace Kelly and 

Audrey Hepburn would like

to be on either side of him.  

For that matter I need a 

nice white rose so I have invited JFK.  

He will be

flanked by Jackie and Marilyn Monroe.  

I'll have

my own little rose walk of fame.

Speaking of stars....I went to Katina's annual Oscar Party last Sunday.

As usual we had a great time.  

I didn't see any of the movies yet

this year, but I always enjoy seeing the dresses on the red carpet.

Katina is always such a splendid hostess!!

Katina is this Latte or Jasmine?

Our food was terrific and since everyone is on 

Weight Watchers, it was 

also WW friendly.

These ladies really know how

to put on a spread of delicious food.

They had pork tostadas, a pasta dish,

egg rolls, strawberry shortcake just to name

a few of the menu items.

and last but not least,

POP POP has been at it again.

Our little Madi is a bit

of a dirty girl.

She owns every piece of dirt

in our backyard.  Just ask her.

she tells us all the time 

that she loves her dirt.

So the girls sent POP POP this little

hint from Toys R Us.

of course Madi didn't really even know

what a sandbox was.

So after working on the rose garden, Pop Pop and I 

headed to Toys R Us to see what was

so special.

He loved it and carted it home, filled it with 

sand...and look what grew.

Another successful project by the 

Popster.

I'm working on the living room 

mantel and my office redo. 

Hopefully I will have some

pictures of these two projects soon.

Sean put up my new

sconces over the fireplace and it looks

so different.  

You know what happens when you change one thing though.  

My can of worms

is now open...

don't tell Pop Pop.