Making a Cut Flower Arrangement, Mapping Out a New Walkway & Rearranging Patio Furniture! – https://bit.ly/43zUtE7
Iseli Plant Load + Veggie Garden Tour & Planting in the Shade Garden! – https://bit.ly/3rImVX0
Final Load of GORGEOUS Trees for the Pond Project + Planting a Birch! – https://bit.ly/3Dq7kOM
5 Trees I Highly Recommend! – https://bit.ly/3O6BdZ0
Giving Our Annuals a Major Mid-Season Trim! – https://bit.ly/43weOKA
J. Frank Schmidt – www.jfschmidt.com
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Good morning all!
The second kid is always the daredevils.
Are you all still working on your friends new build home? I remember you started…will you be doing more?
Aaron, it’s called being truthful. Good for you! I too am honest.
Ha! LOVED that you selected a salty comment! GET EM LAURA! ❤
My dream is that you'll rail at my critique of your inability to use appropriate plurals when you speak. Bring it on, you lovely ignoramus!! 💪
I follow you every day and I still find your videos about basic stuff useful. I cannot decide what type of trees to plant in the middle of my back yard. I need two. I have decision paralysis. I look to your videos for guidance bc I live in your area.
Laura, your brows and hair 👀 looks Good….
Fun Fun Fun!!!! Always so much Fun watching these segments ie answers and questions.
I learn and I appreciate you both and your generosity so much!
You two are SO normal! Love the “empty bowls of water”!!! Got such a chuckle out of that!
Glad to hear you and Aaron went “tree shopping” without the cameras. It’s healthy for your marriage and garden idea creativity. ❤❤❤
I loved your response to the "stupid question." Even if you did wanna rip it out, it's your home, your business, your time, your money and you can do whatever you want! ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉 Tell em! 😂 👍
Sarcasm as a response to rude questions is my go to. Way to go Laura. Made me smile. Thanks Aaron for including that question and giving Laura another chance to shine. ❤️
Yay, for swim lessons, I think it is always a great idea for kids. Swimming lessons were a highlight of summers growing up. I lived in a beach town, and we had a boat as well, so quite important. We also took beach safety courses. At 65 I still love getting in water. We have friends with 7 kids and 2 ponds, they just established rules with the kids, and all have grown and done well.
We have a huge oak tree next to our 83 year old house. It is magestic. Not sure which came first, the house or tree, but we love it! Turns out, it was one of thenative trees in the forest here in IL. Most of them were felled by settlers. When Fall comes,leaves begin drifting down, but then one week, they all let loose. The only other big mess is when the tassels fall off in the Spring.
Being from the Midwest where in the summer it's regularly in the upper 90s with about 70% humidity, 102 degrees with 15% humidity would be WAYYYY better! "It's not the heat that gets ya, it's the humidity!" is a very true saying. Looking forward to seeing the creation of the new pond and surrounding area!
Aaron: use empty tuna cans to measure your sprinkler coverage. Bowls aren't ideal because they have curved edges, but tuna cans have straight edges and that lets you measure the amount of water more accurately.
Knowing how to swim is an important skill in life. I had my take girls lessons at a young age even though as adults they never go swimming. My Mom was so afraid of water (yet her siblings were great swimmers🤷♀️) she had me & my sister afraid to learn how to swim. I didn’t want that for my daughters. I can’t wait to see the pond👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
To offer critical helpful advice you must know how vulnerable your subject tends to be. Some people are so sensitive they tend to always hold a grudge.
OMG I love the "Top 5" and "10 Best" videos you do – I save them and watch them when you post about things like grass, the college, or your friend's garage with the house attached.
I actually laughed out loud at that judgy comment about the pond. 😂
Swimming lessons 👍🏼smart. I wouldn’t have questioned your parenting. But that’s smart. And it’s silly that you have to tell everyone you’re doing that. But you’d inevitably get that comment from Mr ‘you didn’t value your last pond…’
I guess that’s part of sharing your lives. Someone won’t be happy with it🤷🏼♀️
Can’t wait to see the pond project 🎉
Ooooh! I hope it’s the beneficial insects dropped by drone that helps the cut flower garden. I really want to learn about that! Here’s hoping!!💞💞💞💞💞💞
Sounds like Samantha is detail oriented. We need those kind of people too. 🙂
Did you announce who won the holes link last week.
If people have time to worry and comment about what your background plants look like, they need a new hobby.
Slipcovers or just bend the chairs against the table during tht time.
Looking forward to the pond video this week!🥰
Wow! Growing your own pine nuts would be awesome 😂 Especially since they run about $60 per pound at the market! 😊😊
🤣🤣😂😂I don't want them gone, I just want them gone from my feet…..that was great. You guys are great, love the recaps.
This was so much fun watching today. Aaron and Laura just make me laugh. I felt the same as Aaron re cats.
I teach swimming lessons- and think it's so important for kids! And such a rewarding job when they get that hang of it! 😊
To the person who asked about Shasta daisies getting tall and floppy, you can Chelsea chop them in the late spring before they set buds. Just take about 1/3 of the plant off. I sometimes chop some plants twice to get staggered heights.
Thanks for another informative video. I am wondering if spraying your cushions with a water proofing spray would work for the bird issue? I mean spray that is used to water proof my shoes before going to the snow? Then you could just hose them clean. Just a suggestion.
Lmao! Literally laughed loudly and audibly in my home when the “you didn’t value….” Comment was responded to 😂😂😂😂
Lol, that is why I was so confused by your honey locust…. my brother had one on a property that had 6" thorns that could pop Tractor tires.
You guys are such good parents, I never even thought about your kids safety. 💙
"Life is too short to have crappy trees." Cracked me up 🙂 The coolest part of this stage of our social media lives is that we are done with our perceptions of what "people" think. We know the difference between real folks and media folks. Life is too short for so many things isn't it? I like that you two are so balanced….well maybe not totally balanced 🙂 Thanks for the giggle.
when we put in our pond, we have a black wrought iron fence with a gate around the pond for protection.
. We then planted grasses around the fence to soften the look
When Mickey Mouse took over Aaron’s body and said “that’s great!” I snorted my morning coffee 😂😂 Y’all are my favorite. ❤️❤️❤️
I have never doubted that you are excellent parents! I love how you involve the kids in your projects and daily chores around the gardens. People… mind your own business, Laura and Aaron are amazing parents.
Hey Laura As soon as I saw the Islei? Nursery items! They were gorgeous. I called them and they don’t really have retailers in lower SE of US. The closest to me was Birmingham AL, so thought I would just throw this out there!! Hi heat hi humidity is the problem 😢😢
Mimosa trees are the worst with dripping sap! In the sun it looks like it’s misting but it’s all sap. Messy messy
So excited to see the pond and area. We had a pond at our pond and my children all learned to swim. I took them to swimming lessons. They had so much fun. I had 5 kids.
When I was young 10 years old my family lived in an apartment. The complex had a pool in the courtyard, and my mother managed the complex. My parents ensured that my younger sister, age 4, and I had weekly swimming and rescue lessons for about 6 months. One day, I and others saw a fully clothed woman running and jumping into the pool, high heels and all. (this was back in the early 1960s). Not one of the adults busy conversing and sitting around the pool, not one of us children in the pool, had noticed the 6-year-old boy, who could swim, was not coming up for air. But that woman had, and she saved his life! Turned out that she was a certified swimming instructor outside of her routine job as a cashier at a local store. She volunteered to teach every person who did not know how to swim, regardless of their age, how to swim and how to save another person. She would come home from her job, and it would be a class day for someone or many someones. When she was teaching a 3-month-old child how to manage water, my mother thought maybe she could be in a class. My mother, who was born with spinal bifida myelomingescele and had never walked a day in her life, took swimming lessons. She could only manage to float on her back and use her arms/hands to propel herself, but there she was at 33 years old daring to learn to swim. I was so proud of her! I introduced my children's swimming basics starting shortly after birth by bathing them in the bathtub. Very young children of 3-4 months old naturally seek the top of water. Waiting to teach them until they are a year old is a mistake. Their natural instincts to water will have disappeared by then. They still need to be watched when near water, though. That saved little boy was trying to pick up pennies that one parent threw into the deep end of the pool, thinking of it as a fun game.