Tim got off a few minutes early, and wanted to go out and eat tonight. I already had something planned for dinner, but had not started cooking, so he talked me into it – very very easily!
We went out to the new Lowe’s on Lakeland first. Boy, I’ll be glad when they finish building the one by our house in a few months, I really like this store! Tim wanted to look at tool boxes to go in his pickup bed, and I wanted to look for a bird feeder. The only tool boxes that they had were the silver battered looking kind, and Tim wants a black one. We can special order one from Home Depot, so we may end up doing that. He also found a tool storage thing he was interested in, but wasn’t ready to get it today.
So, we didn’t end up getting anything Tim was looking for. What we did do, however, was end up walking out with a buggy full of metal planters, hanging baskets, flowers, potting soil and a bird feeder. Guess who’s going to be busy tomorrow planting some flowers? Of course, this won’t even scratch the surface of what I need to plant. We have several others planters, and then there are all the beds – 3 or 4 – that will need annuals planted in them. It’s a good start though.
We bought ….
a metal trough style planter to hang off the deck railing. Tim wanted to try one there and see how it looked. We have a planter hanging off the back fence, and I had wanted to put it there, but this one has hooks that will supposedly hang off the decking, so he wants to try it there. I just looked on Lowes.com and couldn’t find the exact one, but this one is similar. The one we got has green circles of glass every few inches. Tim liked the green glass better than just plain metal. We got a round hanging planter to match. I picked up some portuluca to put in the long planter, and since the round hanger will be hanging from the Bradford pear tree (in mostly shade), I got a pack of impatiens to go there. We also got a metal round urn style planter to go out on the front walkway. I looked on the website and couldn’t find a picture of it to post either (darn it, that lowes.com site needs to get on the ball!). So maybe one day next week I’ll take a few pictures and post. I got a yellow lantana to put in it. Since it’s taller and up off the ground, we wanted something that would spread and hopefully trail from it.
The bird feeder wasn’t on the website either, but it’s tall, square cylindrical shape, with metal leaves that look sort of like ivy. Weathered brown metal looking. I’ll have to take pictures, if anyone really cares!
Well, I like bird feeders! So, I will want to see it, or you can show me when I come sometime. But, you know, I told you that you needed a squirrel proof bird feeder………especially after I see those pics of squirrels you took! The birds would appreciate it too I’m sure, so they will get all their food!
Gail – the box says it is a squirrel-proof bird feeder! We don’t have a problem with squirrels on the feeder where it is now, it’s on a shepherd’s hook in front of one of the den windows. But, like I told Tim, I might want to move it or get another one to put in the Bradford Pear Tree, and if we put one in the tree, it will DEFINITELY have to be squirrel proof!
I’ll take a pic and post it soon 🙂
Squirrels can go up those hooks to get to it………you just might not know they are doing it! I have seen them do some very amazing things to get to bird seed. And I used to have one on a hook like that and squirrels got to it all the time.
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