My green thumb

My big project for the day was to do some gardening and clean up the back yard. It's another beautiful late summer day in Basel, so I was happy to spend some time outside. When we moved here in March, I had grand plans of gardening quite a bit this summer, but considering I was gone for the prime planting season our yard is a bit of disaster. This morning I went to OBI, which is somewhat like a small-scale Home Depot, to buy some plants. I had planted some flowers in pots in the backyard about a month ago, but they unfortunately didn't survive our recent travels (I guess they needed water), so now I'm working on round two. In addition to potting some plants, I drastically trimmed back a couple rose bushes that were climbing up the side of the house and had grown to about 8 feet tall. I would like to mow the lawn too, but I'm not sure I can figure out the lawn mower so I'll have to wait until Kirk gets back from Beirut to help with that.