Spring still isn’t quite here yet but some bulbs are rearing their heads though. I am happy that the three peony divisions we brought from our old, moldy rental house are resurfacing. I wasn’t sure if they had rotted away in the overly wet area we mistakenly planted them last spring when we just moved here.

Here they are poking their reddish heads through the soil, it already looks like they’ll be much stronger and estabulished this year.

On Friday the ground was more workable (aka, less muddy) and the temperatures warmed up a bit so we got outside and dug a second ditch for the sections of drain pipe we bought to divert the run-off from our gutters. You see it rains quite a bit here and apparently the soil used was a very poor choice, drainage wise. It just gets all swampy in the grassy yard after storms and the water does not dry up or drain away from the house, then we have Dixie running back and fourth in the mushy yard which makes the grassy swamp in to a muddy swamp in the spots she frequently runs.

Anyway, the first section of drain pipe I buried is already diverting water underground, away from the house and right under our back fence, in to the pond out back. Here you can see how it looks after I half-assed packed the dirt back down after burying it:

The second gutter drain pipe is burred under those three peonies that are resurfacing I also added some daffodils and daylilies to the bed and noticed some wild strawberries spreading around out there. You can see them behind Every and Dixie in the below photo.

Happily we got all the drain pipe laying and re-landscaping done before the torrential rains came through over the weekend. We got to see first hand how great it is to actually have the water draining off the house and out of the yard. Woho, our hard work has paid off!

We’ve got some pretty daffodil bulbs that have opened for our enjoyment too. Yay spring!