SandwichINK Real Estate Info is joining up with Cindy at I Owe It All To Him today. She wants to know our favorite movies. That would be SOOOO hard for me to pin down. But since I'm doing it here at SandwichINK Real Estate Info, I decided to think about ones I love that include houses or landscaping designs I also love.
One favorite for decades (can you tell I'm in the Baby Boomer Generation) is The Sound of Music. In addition to the delightful music, and the wonderful and suspenseful storyline, who could resist those sweet flowers, Edelweiss, on the majestic hill. Not to mention a house big enough for the biggest of the Sandwich Generation families.
Two more that I love – Father of the Bride 1 and 2 with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton. Between the delightful music, the gorgeous family home full of sweet family memories, and the wonderful landscaping designs, flowers, and butterflies, I could just move in there myself. 
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Hooray! Spring is springing, leaves are greening, and buds are blooming. It's one of my two favorite seasons of the year! It's a great time to take the grandkids for a scooter ride around the block, do some spring cleaning in the house, and, perhaps, have a chat with our elderly parents about simplifying their landscaping designs to make it easier for them to care for.
For that matter, it's a good time for us to look at what's going on in all of our Sandwich Generation families, assess our current and probable future situation, and decide if we need to make any changes to our own landscaping designs.
When my dad was in hospice and one of my daughters was going through a difficult pregnancy, the roses didn't get trimmed and the fruit trees didn't get picked. For one year, it wasn't too bad, but it did add a bit of extra stress. If it looks like things might be a little more busy than normal this year, simpler landscaping designs can help de-stress our lives just a bit.
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Christmas is over, the New Year is now 2010, and for many of us snow is a regular guest. We've passed the shortest day of the year which means the days are getting longer and the gardening magazines are keeping the post office employees very busy. As members of the Sandwich Generation it may not be just our own yards we're concerned about. As our senior parents are getting older, yard chores may be getting more difficult. Now might be a good time to talk to them about ways to adjust their landscaping designs in order to help them simplify their outside chores.
On a good weather day, take a walk around their yard with them and ask if there are any plants they no longer want. Fruit trees that don't get picked, rose bushes gone totally wild, etc. My grandparents kept their garden up until they went to be with the Lord but many other seniors I've known chose to "redecorate their yards" in a simpler manner by making minor (or major) tweaks to their landscaping designs. Of course, this discussion needs to be done with loving sensitivity. If they're not ready to make these changes yet, perhaps encouraging them to hire a gardener could help. Then again, you may be surprised to find they were already thinking about it and just didn't know how to start.
It can be a fun project for them to think about and help plan, even though you or a gardener may have to do most of the work. While you're busy making those plans, you might want to think about adding landscape curbing to any trees, bushes, and flower beds. These can help reduce the amount of weeding needed, make it easier to mow and give the yard a fresh clean look. This kind of project will make it easier for your aging parents to maintain their yards and, when their health requires them to sell the house, they'll be a nice selling perk.
Whether you decide to do a total remodel of their landscaping designs or just make some simple changes to the yard like adding concrete curbing and removing overgrown, undermaintained plants, be sure your parents stay fully involved in the process. They'll be happier with the end result, which will make you happier as well.
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