Woodpecker Lawn Ornament

I have 2 gnomes that sat outside all winter. Well let me correct that, I have 1 & 2/3 gnomes. One was broken by my son with his basketball. The wheelbarrow with a frog in it got broken off as well as did the gnomes arms. They are both paint faded now from the weather and I want new ones but they are going for outrageous prices now days as they seem so popular.
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Buster has never messed with any of our other lawn decorations so these are no problems. These will more than likely be setting along side some flowers or my apple trees this spring and summer not the deck. I'll have too many planters and boxes on the deck. Up the cats rear? Now that would have been a Kodak Moment.
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When we bought this house nearly 5 years ago the lawns were very bad and dried to the bone. No flowers etc. It is now one of the nicer looking lawns in the neighborhood thanks to my hard and dillegent work.
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When we bought our house 10 yrs ago, it was in a mess.. Then I started adding a few flowers each year, I can't afford to do it all at once.. But if you stick with it and do a few at a time, the perennials will keep multiplying and spreading out, some of them can be divided to make more.. I had one huge hosta come up the first spring in the last house that I lived in and before it was over, I had 20 of them.. I spread them out into different areas of my yard and they grew like weeds but looked better.. Get your friends to give you cutting or extra bulbs in the springtime, some of them do grow so fast and so big that they have to be divided and a lot of people will share with you.. I try to get everything that I can into my yard that will come back the next year and so far it is working.. I even had 5 of the biggest brightest Tulips growing in a flower bed this year, first time since we moved in here 10 yrs ago, my neighbor said that she bet a squirrel had planted it thinking that it was hiding its food for the winter, hope he doesn't come back looking for it because they are beautiful..

Do a little at a time and it will add up to a very nice yard and you will get to watch the results of your work.. The outcome of your garden or yard will outweigh the input.. I always remember what my little 90 yr old mother always used to say as we were growing up, "Every little bit helps said the old woman as she peed in the ocean".. Good advice to remember, enjoy and live by..