The Great Massacre of 09

If you read my daughters blog, www.longsatlegglofts.blogspot.com, you may have

read the post back in October with pictures of a cute little Halloween/Thanksgiving scene or err

a picture of a scene anyway

Not sure how cute

I think Courtney had been waiting on the opportunity to do this since before they moved in

You know how these things are

My thing when we moved into our first house was to put up

hanging flower pots and get a hammock

I think that even though Courtney and Dave loved their loft

they were looking forward to things that having a yard offered

Courtney asked me to bring up some bales of hay so she could do a little decoration for Halloween

Now, in Berry, a small country town

we don't have those cutesy little decorating hay bales

We have the real thing

So....

when Court asked for six bales

it was hanging over the edges of the back of the truck

Off we went to the Farmer's Market to get some pumpkins

The FM is so much fun

They had every kind of pumpkin in every size that you could imagine

About $75.00 later

we came back to Courtney's with a truck full of pumpkins

I also had brought corn stalks with me

So....

we started decorating

Let it be said that I do not have a single decorating cutesy gene

and I fear that my daughter is the same way

We worked and worked

but even we realized that it was just so so

but with the time and money put into it

the decoration stayed

and

Lawson thought it was wonderful

As we were decorating the hay

Courtney mentioned that she hoped the hay didn't hurt

the grass

Dave had that grass looking great

The first weekend of December

John and I went to Birmingham to go to a

Christmas Tree Farm

Court, Dave and Lawson went with us

We got trees for everybody

After we unloaded Courtney and Dave's tree

and Lawson's Charlie Brown tree

Courtney asked if we could take the hay back to Berry

So....

Out go Courtney and I to dismantle the famous decoration

As we were picking up the hay

we actually had to pull it up

it had rooted into the ground

Uh Oh

The surrounding grass had already turned the yellow brown color

that kind of grass does in the winter

So

it didn't look bad

Whew!

Well, when we were up at Courtney and Dave's, the first of May, for

Lawson's birthday party

I noticed this in the front yard

Yes, all the grass was green except for the memory of Courtney's

very first

yard decoration

She says

never again

Dave calls it

The Great Massacre of 2009