Offering a Helping Hand

Over this past weekend we went over to our friend Mrs. Smith's house to weed and clean up her flower beds and plant some flowers for summer. While Lindy and I were shopping for the flowers and mulch, Bill was busy digging out more space for a larger bed under the front window. Mrs. Smith is housebound so he wanted to give her a good view of the flowers. It was a lot of work but the kids really enjoyed doing this for her.

We were going to take the Brownie Troop over to do this but many girls were not available. All of our kids still wanted to go and work on the yard and Bill was not able to go many other times. We will be taking the Brownies over to weed this summer. Good Work kids I know that Mrs. Smith really appreciated all of your work!

Some serious manual labor by these little girls.

Planting, planting, planting....

Snacking, snacking, snacking.

Kyle can do some serious grown up work now! I can count on him to carry heavy bags of mulch for me, mow, trim, and do just about anything I need. When did he grow up?!

Ethan worked on this little corner by the front door. Mrs. Smith may see this when she goes outside for appointments. He weeded it really well,cleared the ivy and put in flowers. It looked great and he couldn't wait for her to see it. Words from Ethan, " I love working on other people's yards." He really enjoys going to work on Mimi's while Kyle is mowing and he had a great time doing this.

Lindy chose these hanging baskets to hang on the shepards hook. Mrs. Smith love the fuchsia. She used to be quite the gardner and has a little greenhouse on the back of her house. She knows all kinds of flowers so we had quite the challange to give variety and find some neat colors for her to look at.

They were hot and tired but proud of a job well done!