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Weeds And Models

Your flower beds in front of your house are like modeling, both works of different sorts of art

I am a model now, the before picture is fine and the after picture is great and so I am ready to be in an ad online and maybe in magazines. This is wonderful for a super senior.
Next now this is almost as important as the above. Weeds seem to follow me wherever I live. When I lived in an apartment for the first few years of marriage, I had an outside container and I planted petunias in various colors and it was so colorful and I could look outside and feel happy because I loved flowers. Then weeds appeared overnight and the weeds were a combo flower pot.
In the beds of my house, we picked weeds out constantly in the beds that were planted in front of the house and the sides of the house and the weeds flourished and loved being there. They loved us,
So I conferred with my friend Andy Oliva and he told me what to get done by my gardener. He said to get the current mulch off which was new and get some new dirt and spray the dirt with a necessary weed killer, line the beds with a double dose of landscape liner covering the new dirt and then put down a new mulch which I chose black color which is quite spiffy and exciting to look at.


Weeds are gone which is wonderful at last and modeling is great at 82 and one really does not equal the other, but when you have conquered weeds taking over your outside prettiness, then the owners feel they have won out a great battle.


There is a line I believe is in the Bible, “ weeping is for the night and rejoicing in the day.”
Hopefully we all should have no weeping in night or day and mostly rejoicing in the day and even in the night for good things happening in our life daily. Flowers and modeling are both kinds of art, one is planted, the other is shown in print for all to see. There is no weeping looking at flowers and surely, joy in being featured in a printed ad online or in magazines helping ladies get prettier than they are because of a new hair styling.

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