In the meantime, we took a drive to the Home Depot to check out plants that we could use on our space this year. We picked up a few hanging baskets and some Rustoleum paint to paint our plant stand. The baskets look nice following the new paint job on the stand:
The plant stand, by the way, was a real find as I discovered it sitting in the dumpster last year. Somebody tossed it before leaving here last Spring.
We also bought some small plants for a planter that Josie placed by our front door:
All of these flowers should grow and look terrific in a month or so. I will connect our watering system today so that they will get regular watering while we are gone for days at a time.
We are beginning to evaluate options for next year - at least for the next winter season. We have to put a (refundable) deposit on our site here to reserve it for another year which we will probably do before we leave for Chicago. There are a few things that we don't care about regarding this site, and the first one on the list is the frequency of winds which are creating messy problems from the tree which is the second main concern about this space. We have to spend way too much time in cleanup mode for the mess from the tree. We aren't too happy about the lack of maintenance on our site while we were gone for the summer. We felt that they could have kept the weeds away and the leaves raked the same as they do for the empty spaces in the Resort. We also asked them a year ago to repaint the wall on our site which hasn't been done after they promised to complete the job.
We are enjoying the free time even though there is work remaining outside. It's hard to beat this area in the winter when the winds are calm...
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