As I mentioned, most of the weekend was spent outside in the garden. But not all of the time was spent on plants and dirt. Saturday, we focused on painting. While I touched up the paint on all my raised veg beds, Dave was busy working on several of my garden decorations.

We collected quite a few unique things over the winter from our thrifting adventures, and most of them needed some new spray paint. He’s much better at it than me – mostly because I don’t care if there is a drip or two. He does care, so I left him to it.

He also did the bulk of the painting on my concrete goose and swan – ie – painting them white. Again, here he’s much better suited to the job than I, as he was more focused on getting paint into every little nook and cranny of the concrete.

Once he was done with them (and I was done with my veg beds) I came along and added the artistic flourishes ie – gave them faces.

The goose also needed some feet and grass coloured in

They are attached to concrete pavers, because sadly, there’s been some thefts in our neighbourhood. Gertie the goose will be bolted to the porch, but Susannah Swan is going in the garden. She’s already 70 or 80 lbs without the paver, so with it she’s well over 100 – a lot harder to pick it up and walk away with.

I’m hoping to get Susannah in the garden and planted up this weekend. I’m not sure if I’ll wait to put Gertie out until I make her an outfit or not. I’m on vacation next week so I can decided if I have the time to whip something up then or not.