COVID-19 Quarantine Day 48

Good morning, folks!  Hope you're all well.  I got my work done for the morning and the kids are downstairs on a video call, so I thought I'd get on and say how things have been going around here the last couple days.  Yesterday I spent most of the day out and about and working on the garden and flower bed.  I went to Wal-Mart and bought 30 bags of mulch.  Turns out I could only fit 12 bags in my car.  *facepalm*  Before I went home, I went to Andover to the Kaw Valley in the parking lot behind Wendy's (which looks great, by the way!).  I got a couple herb plants (chives and basil).  I looked for more strawberries, but didn't see any more.  I guess they are a pretty early season plant.  Next, I went home and we unloaded the mulch, then I left to go get the rest of the mulch and some more plants.  On my way to Wal-Mart I called my mom and asked what side of the road plant places she recommended.  She said she'd join me while I went out to look for plants.  She hasn't been out to any of those places yet this year.  So instead of going out to find plants, I got the mulch (all 18 bags I had left to get), and went back home to unload, do my afternoon Zoom call, and wait for Mama to get to town.  I fit more mulch in my car after taking the car seats out and laying down the middle row.  While I was waiting for my Zoom call to start and Mama to get to town, I mulched the front flower bed.  It looks SO GOOD NOW!!!  I'll have to wait and post another blog with the pictures because I can't access them easily from the computer where I'm typing this.  It looks really nice!  After my Zoom call, Mama came over and we went out to look for new plants.  We went to Stutzman's, back to Wal-Mart (for another 20 bags of mulch), and to Lowe's.  I got a few more vegetable plants!  😀😀😀  I've got to stop buying plants now, because I'm going to be out of space with these last 3 squash plants I bought.  They take up a lot of space.  I probably shouldn't have gotten as many as I did, or possibly shouldn't have tried to start the squash from seeds and just got the plants from the get go, but what can I say, I was terribly anxious to get started on my garden a couple weeks ago and the zucchini and squash plants weren't available yet.  I had to do something in the mean time.  We'll see how everything does once it's planted....  After Mama and I got back to the house, I mulched the garden in the back.  I'm so glad that Michael helped me wheel all the mulch to the back of the house in the wheelbarrow.  I never ate lunch and by that point it was closer to dinner time.  With all the loading and unloading of the mulch, carrying bags around, and dumping and spreading mulch I was completely exhausted.  After my shower I think I laid in bed for a full hour or more and just drank water and rested.  Avery even made me a sandwich for dinner because I was just pooped.  Eventually I felt better and made it out to see the garden all mulched and evened out (Michael was going to rake it a little when I went in to take a shower).  It's beautiful!  Again, I'll have to post another blog with pictures.  It looks great!   We didn't add more mulch between beds 1 & 2 and 2 & 3 because there was still quite a bit of mulch left there from last year.  It's faded, but otherwise, still looks pretty good.  It doesn't look a whole lot different because the landscape fabric was already dark, but we started covering the landscape timbers so all of the walkways look the same.  It all looks really nice!  I'll have lots of pictures to post soon because lots of things have been growing.  I've also made a few new recipes the last couple of days, so be looking for that blog coming up too.  :)  That's all I've got for now!  Have a good one!