Accomplishments are best met with sharp cutting objects

I am aware of how great I am. You are aware of how great I am. Nature? Not so much. Today I showed her. :) Yesterday Mr. F and I did a little yard work. He took care of all the cut the shrub into a perfect square type stuff and I took care of the 12 foot grapefruit tree that was starting to resemble scary shrubbery. It didn't even resemble a tree and were it not bearing fruit, I would have never been convinced it is what it is. Since I am always super helpful and loving this whole domestic queen deal, I told Mr. F not to worry about clean up and to leave the task for me. I mean, we were going to pick it all up right that instance but his mom came over for a spell and chatting ensued. Then, alas, we realized we had no bags to put the refuse into so we had to go and get them didn't we? This meant a "quick" trip to Lowes. All said and done we returned with the bags, a new beautiful Stromanthe sanguinea Sonder for inside the house (it was on sale for about a quarter of it's usual cost and needed help, what's a girl to do?), the pot it will be planted into and a swing for the back patio. Needless to say, it was way late by the time we were done building the swing and pick up had never happened.

I stepped out this morning to clean up, looked at the gigantic shrub that should be a tree and it transformed before my very eyes. Yes, I immediately knew what needed to be done. Clearly it needed to be turned into a small tree that resembled a bonsai grapefruit tree. After practicing smiling heartily and saying the words "don't worry, it will undoubtedly grow back!" I went to work on my Monday masterpiece. It took a while but I persevered and what do you know! There is now THE cutest little tree beside the front walkway. It greets me with the warmth and acceptance any small tree in a walkway should.

Side Note: We are redoing the backyard. It’s going to be awesome. I’m going to record and blog it start to finish. The revamp is going to be mind numbing. Ready yourselves.

Now I don't want you thinking I forget you at any point, but it never occurred to me to take any pictures yesterday, as my creative juices were not flowing quite like this morning. So you don’t get it from the very beginning 12-foot monster it was before I whacked off the top. You do however get to see the final transformation. Enjoy. I know I did.

Oh yeah, by the way… the new job is making me an offer at 4 p.m. my time today. I rule. DB can suck it. Over & Out.