is it a garden?

"Garden ":  noun: a plot of land for the purpose of growing flowers, herbs and  vegetables.
"Gardening":  verb. to work in a garden".

I suppose i have a garden as i will eventually grow flowers instead of just weeds... and the working in the garden for now is the prep work for the future of those flowers. 

I spent almost four hours outside this Saturday morning.  Mostly in the shade but sometimes in the sun. I had 11 plants to plant.  Seems simple and straight forward....not!  First i decided to build a little wall of  rocks from the dry creek to stabilize the slope of the bank and use the soil to broaden the bed. Wish it took only as long as the speaking of the job.   Then the plants..  i had some of what i purchased, so beside deciding where i wanted what to go, i had to dig up a few previously owned plants to transplant into this new bed.  Then i have noted... that no matter how much time i spend trying to site the plants so they face the sun the way they were growing... i generally have to dig them up and replant them. Back and forth, sun and shade, four hours.  had lunch. did some wash.  rested for an hour. Now back outside. 

Hubby has decided to mow.......

 It is june 18th and this is the first time he is mowing in june.  did i mention that he hates mowing? Only mows once a month if he can get away with it.  His mowing is akin to the indy 500. back and forth at a terrific rate of speed. Pushing the tall grass and weeds down instead of cutting.  when he is finished you wonder why he bothered.  The lawn area looks like it did before he started.... maybe worse because there will be areas of flattened grass and areas of standing grass which he did not bother to drive over.  It is embarrassing.   i have to cut the same area again when he is not around. Almost three acres cut in under 1/2 an hour.
you can imagine....