Once the toolshed had turned into a cabin, and the cabin had turned into a house, we decided to keep it going. Over the next several years we would build if we had any money, and if we didn’t, we didn’t. During those “didn’t” years, we turned to gardening. Buzz built window boxes and we planted them with impatiens.
Phil, who’d done our driveway and septic, came back with his bulldozer and pulled out all the rocks in the yards that he could. What he couldn’t pull out, we gardened around, planting Shasta daisies, Black-eyed Susans, bright red Bee Balm, and about 25 different kinds of Day Lilies, along with big containers filled with colorful Wave Petunias.
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