Before and After?

We are not that new to Texas.  I mean, we lived in Houston for a year, before relocating to the Dallas area, so it has been a little over two years now.  So you would think that I would know how the weather here is. Well, not exactly.  Houston was for the most part, very similar to Florida, where we are from, just not as humid.  Dallas, on the other, has got it's crazy weather hat on.  It's always to the extreme.  We had record braking heat days this past summer, where the temperature would be about 111 degrees, but felt like it was way worse.  In the winter we were stuck home for a week because of ice on the roads.  Needless to say, I've been begging my husband for a trip back home.

Lesson learned: Put patio furniture in garage next time.....and grill!

This past summer we decided to spruce up the backyard a bit, with new potted flowers, flower bed cleaning, weeding, mulching and some new patio accessories.  After 3 whole days, it turned out quite lovely, but we had to water the flowers every-single-day, or they would start to turn brown (100 + degrees everyday will do that).  After about 4 weeks of doing that, we started to give up.  Slowly but surely, our patio started to look sad again.

Patio Furniture from Target.  Umbrellas from JC Penney for $25 each on sale

But really, who am I kidding, it's not like we were enjoying it anyways.  You only lasted 5 minutes outside before you felt light headed from the heat.  

I guess we will just try to not look out in the back until next year.  Then we can do it all over again :)

Have a great day.

Kristel