Happy Monday!

After a fun weekend in Chattanooga, TN, with Peggy, Antoine, and Lucien, Chris and I arrived back to the warm embrace of Tallulah House early yesterday evening. The dogs were glad to be home-- I think that we wore them out at Rock City, but hey! Now they can tell everyone that they've visited an attraction!

We also visited the aquarium while we were there (although, oddly enough, the dogs weren't allowed to go ;) ), and I especially enjoyed the otters, as per usual. We also drove through Chicka mauga military park before we left. Chris wants us to go back in the fall so that he can have more time to look around. I plan to do a little research to find out if there are any good antique shops there, so that I can indulge MY interest while he indulges HIS ;)

As many of you know we've been building stone raised beds in the front yard, and today after work we went to Hasting's to get our foundation plants. We couldn't find what we needed at Home Depot or Lowe's and the shipping costs from online nurseries were going to be ridiculous, so Hasting's it was! We got some dwarf camelias, plum yews, and various groundcovers-- all evergreen so that the yard doesn't look completely hideous in the winter. After we get all those planted, I'll fill in with annuals. Yes, people, we will be spending our 4th of July gardening!

I can't wait to get some pictures of the beds as they are now and of them when we get through with this whole project. It'll be neat to compare them with photos of the house when we first bought it. We've come a long way, baby :)

Happy Monday!