Free!

It was a great day for penny pinching and free stuff. This morning my neighbor took me around her lawn and pointed out a dozen different flowering plants she'd be happy if I helped myself to. What's nice is that many of them are shade loving and I have a couple shady spots on the house I've been pondering over!

Next we headed down to the island to pick up Lanie and stopped at a home that had a horse. There's a sign out front that advertises free horse poop if 'you scoop.' Well I'm a happy scooper and came prepared with a couple of rubbermaid tubs and a pitch fork. I'll be stopping there on a weekly basis :)

From there we stopped by Sara's father's where we scored a chives plant and some other assorted plants they were keen to share.

Then we headed home where we met up with Sara's mother who had brought up a number of household items Sara's grandfather was getting rid of: a couch, sewing equipment, scrap wood and tin and other detritus. They also brought up the rest of their unused seeds and onion bulbs so Sara and I treated them to ice cream at Spencer's in Bradley.

I'll have a busy day tomorrow preparing ground, planting and transplanting! But the rewards are many for the small investment of time and smiles :)