Out My Front Door...

How many times do we go out our front door every day, and pay little attention to what we see? I know we see the same thing thousands of times and we ignore it for the most part, knowing it never changes. I thought about that the other day when out taking pics that it might be a neat idea to have everyone post on a blog one day on what they see when they open up their front door every day.

I tend to ignore what I see most of the time while in pursuit of my original premise for stepping outside. Part of why I ignore what I see first thing stepping out the front door is a project that I keep putting off. Just outside the front door is the concrete drive and then a set of steps that lead up into the front yard which has a large kettle. I got the kettle years ago at an auction and it's original purpose was for processing hogs while butchering. However when I spied it, my immediate thought was for a planter. After it was put in place, nothing has changed much about it except for the replanting of annual flowers every year.

It's due for an overhaul though as you can tell by the pic it has sunk on one side and appears lopsided. Underneath the kettle was an old stump, that at the time, I thought would be smart to place the kettle on and mulch with lava rock surrounded by the railroad ties. It seemed like a good at the time, which is something I find myself saying a lot. In fact I think I can claim that for most of the 1980's.

The stump, however, has rotted over time as well as the old railroad ties. And lava rock, which was so popular and all the rage years ago, is a bit out of place now. It all needs to be replaced or re-landscaped with something that works better for the area.

I keep putting the project off though. It is going to take some work to dig out all of the dirt and drainage rocks in the bottom of the kettle. It is heavy, really too heavy to move easily on my own. Part of the reason for putting off the project, other than the hard work involved, is that my visions of how to redo or remodel the area is a bit beyond my scope of expertise. I want to put in pavers from the top of the steps, thru the arch into a circular path around the kettle that eventually could meander off into the yard to a birdbath with a new flower bed there as well.

It's a big project, which is why it isn't started yet. It won't be started this year, with my excuse being I can't disturb my few handfulls of annual flowers in the kettle. Even though I have big plans on what I would LIKE to do, I know that those plans most likely will be edited to something simpler, maybe even into something that doesn't even involve pavers but just having the kettle leveled with a smaller circular flower bed around it.That is the thing about a garden, it never stays the same. At least it doesn't for me, except when I procrastinate. It's something that I will continue to think about, and ignore while going out my front door.