[speaker001:] I pushed it.
[speaker002:] Okay.
[speaker001:] So what do you you in your lawn? Do you do it yourself or do you hire someone to do it?
[speaker002:] Uh, no we've been doing it ourselves for most of the time, uh, find that it's really a little more economical, and we have, oh, I find that I have the time, and I kind of enjoyed it over here in Texas. I used to live in Arizona, and it was very con-, very frustrating, because I didn't have the watering system and it was, it was just too much work
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and not enough enjoyment.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] But over here we get enough water automa-, you know, naturally as well have the automatic sprinklers, {C and
[speaker001:] Yeah, right.
[speaker002:] so } it's a lot more rewarding
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, uh-huh.
[speaker002:] so.
[speaker001:] Well, we do our own out here, uh, you know, mow it ourselves and everything, but, uh, our water supply right now is bad. We need rain badly [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Oh, that's right.
[speaker001:] Uh, we can water, here in Patterson, I can water on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturday and Sunday, four days a week.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] So.
[speaker002:] Is that enough during the hotter times of the year?
[speaker001:] It was this last summer, yeah.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Uh, now if it, we don't get some rain, they might limit it to not even four times, you know
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah.
[speaker001:] but, uh, yeah, we do our law-, our, you know, mowing ourselves and everything, and I do our [chiming] planting of bulbs and things where I can have some spring flowers
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and, uh,
[speaker002:] [Chiming] Yeah, I find that I've been doing a lot of perennial planting, which I never did before
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and it's been real enjoyable, although I didn't do any this last fall, because our past winters have been so cold, um
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] they'd freeze down, and by the time they, the flowers would come back to life it was supposedly the time to pull things out for the spring and summer planting [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] So I was getting kind of disillusioned and tired and, and spending too much money on something that was kind of more of a problem than it was rewarding, so
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, uh-huh.
[speaker002:] um, I'm going to try to wait now and just do the spring and summer type plantings and
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] see how that, you know, feels.
[speaker001:] Yeah. We have quite a few roses. I just, uh, we, in fact we just pruned them way down, and I just had to replace one of them, so I just bought that yesterday, and I'll probably go outside today and plant that.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] But, um, I like to have the roses where I can have cut flowers all year long.
[speaker002:] Yeah, those are enjoyable.
[speaker001:] I even had, uh, roses on my table for Christmas dinner
[speaker002:] Oh, did you?
[speaker001:] which was really pretty, you know [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Uh-huh [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] But, um, other than the roses I don't have too many flowers. I plant gladiolas
[speaker002:] Um, those are nice.
[speaker001:] and those are always pretty, but they get so tall, and they, they bend over so fast
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] you know.
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah. I haven't done much in, in bulbs. In fact I received as a Christmas present a, a planter that had bulbs in it, that we were supposed to go ahead and water it any time and after it started to sprout put in a sunny window, and it
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] it just grew like crazy, but I don't have [LAUGHTER] any flowers on it. I don't know how long that takes, or
[speaker001:] Um.
[speaker002:] if there's anything I need to do differently. It's just nice and green right now [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, well, is it that, one of those Amaryllis?
[speaker002:] Uh, no
[speaker001:] No, huh.
[speaker002:] I'm thinking White Narcissus or something
[speaker001:] Oh, okay.
[speaker002:] like a pa-, like a white paper flower or so.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
[speaker002:] And, uh.
[speaker001:] Do you have a big yard?
[speaker002:] No, not really, and in Plano and most of the newer areas of Texas, uh, they have just the, the minimum square footage for lots, to where you get a little bit of a backyard, we have a pool in our backyard, and
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] we did plan it to where we have some, some play yard left over, but it's, it's, um, you know, very small.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] But most of the houses here, if you have a pool, you don't have anything else in the backyard
[speaker001:] Yeah, right, right.
[speaker002:] that's about the size of most of them.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, uh-huh.
[speaker002:] So, uh
[speaker001:] Um.
[speaker002:] I guess we're kind of fortunate. Everyone looks at that, with our yar-, at our yard with kind of sense of awe, like wow, you really got, you know, some grass [LAUGHTER] back there.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Well.
[speaker001:] Well, that makes it nice.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Well, it's hot enough here in the summer time that we could have a pool, but we don't have one
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] you know, but they are a lot of people that do have pools around here
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] you know
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] but we just, we just have dogs and, um, [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and grass
[speaker002:] Uh, yeah.
[speaker001:] you know, the cement work
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and a little play set we made for a garden. So we do have a garden, you know.
[speaker002:] .
[speaker001:] It's just a small one, you know, but we, had lots of tomatoes, and, uh, zucchini
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] it's amazing what you can get out of a little
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] you know, it's probably about twenty by, I don't know, twenty by six, something like that, and it's amazing what you can, you know, how many plants you can plant in there
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah.
[speaker001:] but it was nice. Few cucumbers.
[speaker002:] That's one part of gardening I haven't tried yet, and
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, uh-huh.
[speaker002:] I don't think this yard is a very,