[speaker001:] how you enjoy lawn and garden work
[speaker002:] well yes and no we live um on a cul-de-sac and we're at the end so we kind of have like two yards so to speak and um it's really tough in the summer time mowing because we just have so much yard to to uh take care of
[speaker001:] do y'all have a riding lawn mower
[speaker002:] no we don't that's on our wish list one of these days but that's how we get our exercise is get out there with the mower and what we did this uh past summer was we tried to because we're doing we do it the mulching rather than bag it and all and uh we try to do it about twice a week so that was really quite the chore
[speaker001:] our first house when we got married was a third of an acre and we had plenty front yard side yards and back backyards
[speaker002:] oh my
[speaker001:] the next house was uh a lot smaller we had a swimming pool in the back and front the third house we're in now the backyard is total swimming pool
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] the sides are slowly disappearing into into uh other things and the front's very small so the size of my yard is decreasing in proportion to my age uh I
[speaker002:] yeah right well that that makes sense though
[speaker001:] I'm I've gotten to where I enjoyed digging in the little flower beds rather than uh
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] uh mowing mowing and and I we've got the third house has an automatic sprinkler system which I wouldn't be without again
[speaker002:] the actual maintenance of the yard uh-huh well see that's what that's also on our wish list we um couple years ago we landscaped our our whole front yard
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and um my husband has lived in the house for several years and we finally decided well we're just gonna go in and redo everything and we did that and we debated at the time about putting in you know sprinkler system like in the in the flower beds and we thought well when we do it we're just gonna do in the flower beds and the whole yard
[speaker001:] you might not do the flower beds I've had a guy that's in bugs and pest control he says you're really inviting termites when you go into the flower beds and keep it real moist
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh well speaking of termites we had those this past summer too
[speaker001:] did y'all really oh I had those in house number two and it cost me a thousand bucks to get rid of them and then when I went to renew see the guy for renar renewal the one year warranty renewal
[speaker002:] yeah right right
[speaker001:] he'd gone out of business so my yes
[speaker002:] oh yeah that's that's a tough thing we got a with our deal we got about a five year warranty and we're just
[speaker001:] yeah who'd y'all go with
[speaker002:] a place called TKO Exterminating there he's out in Rowlett and I hope that he's going to around
[speaker001:] yeah stays in business yeah I I the the big ones the national chains Orkid or whoever he is they were a lot more expensive but
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] if I have it do over again I will go with a major corporation because well gust because the guy retires and there goes your warranty when he retires
[speaker002:] yeah I know that's the that's the thing and we thought about that and we thought well we're just gonna kind of I guess take our chances and hopefully end up on the better end of the deal
[speaker001:] what kind of plants do you have in your garden when y'all landscaped
[speaker002:] we've got some uh Yaupon hollies Chinese hollies uh the monkey grass
[speaker001:] yeah we're we're right behind you on those you listen to Neil Sperry too right
[speaker002:] yeah well actually the first time we relandscaped we did it in the fall they say that's the best time to do it and we did it then and we had Indian Hawthornes in which are so pretty because they have the little you know uh blossoms on them but those are not freeze tolerant and we had a freeze and we had to replace we took about twenty plants back that next spring to the nursery and we had a lifetime guarantees so we just got new plants and put those in
[speaker001:] beautiful if you want a little flower bed system automatically PVC piping is dirt cheap
[speaker002:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker001:] and they sell connections that go from a short hose you buy a short hur hose and the connections and you lay it in your flower bed
[speaker002:] uh-huh okay
[speaker001:] and the the the sprinkler head that you buy at the store fit right in to PVC
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh is that right
[speaker001:] and so you just lay that in your flower bed and then when you're ready to water all you do is put the hose into your PVC thing turn it on and it does it right there and you don't have to move the hose or anything
[speaker002:] okay you probably uh-huh uh-huh oh okay yeah because see that's what's such a pain is the constant moving is the you know
[speaker001:] I know I know I know I'm so proud of my house with the automatic
[speaker002:] well that's that's hopefully we did a lot of work on our house this past summer and um we thought the next thing will be a sprinkler system but that probably won't be for a couple of years now because we really did a whole lot this summer spent too much money so
[speaker001:] well you get it the way you want it and just perfect and sit back for a while I hope y'all don't have to get transferred or anything now that you got it the way you want it
[speaker002:] yeah well I know I hate it when people do that they'll sit there and fix up their house and then they move and no we're gonna we plan on staying here for awhile
[speaker001:] did did you hear the price on the discount is down to three percent today the lowest the banks in three twenty five years
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] the mortgages I'm gonna be refinancing the rent house our house and everything else I I just can't wait they're talking you know seven eight percent
[speaker002:] yeah I know yep yep
[speaker001:] well anyway