Creepy crawlies are as much as part of gardening as soil and sun. Gardeners tend to have different views on such things, some taking as much interest in the bugs as the flowers and heralding the sight of a helpful critter as much as prize-winning tomato. Others abhor the little buggers. I remember reading a gardening forum post once in ...
There are so many things happening in the garden at this time of year. Sometimes I feel like I mention something and then completely forget to give you an update on it. So today I’m tying up a few loose ends. GARDEN CLEANUP A couple weeks ago I mentioned my new strategy for getting the garden in shape: Take one ...
I’ve finally finished planting all of my containers for this year. The weather since they’ve been in has not been great so they are not filling in as quickly as one would hope, but they’ll get there, I’m sure. I thought it would fun to see how they change throughout the summer, so I’ll try to check in with them ...
If you haven’t lived in a rural area, you might not know about septic mounds. They are one of the most common ways to deal with septic in the country when you don’t have municipality-provided sewer service. We are fortunate that our mound is on the far side of the property. They aren’t unattractive, they are just weird random lumps ...
I’ve been feverishly working on finishing up the new garden area in the side/back yard and I’m almost there. I’m at the really fun part of arranging and planting now. I love planting a new bed. There is something so wonderful about a clean slate to plant in. But with me spending so much time in that area of the ...
Since it’s finally finished and planted, I think it’s high time I share with you how we built the wood planter by the front door. When the old planter fell apart after five or six years of year-round service, I was shocked when I found out how much large planters cost. Having found some wood ones at Restoration Hardware that ...
Our poor garage. We’ve ignored it so much over the years (12 of them actually; the anniversary of closing on our house was last weekend!). As you may, recall, we’re working on fixing that, but I also made a change I could have done any time and just never did. I added a bit of greenery. The bit of garage ...
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I did my mantel twice this year. No sooner had I gotten the wreath up than I found out that the newspaper that had featured the house in the home and garden section was interested in doing a special Christmas cover shoot at our house. They were looking for a big fireplace in front which […]
I had so much fun decorating the outside this year, partly because it’s fun to deck out the “new house” and partly because it’s been downright nice (for December) to be outside this year. If it weren’t for not wanting to totally break the bank, I would have just kept on decorating. It’s no secret […]
The trip to an area Dick’s Sporting Goods store was not without it’s usual frustrations. As usual, it was impossible to find an employee to help and I was getting more frustrated by the fact that I had left my purse in the car so I was juggling my wallet and a flyer full of […]
It is so hard to blog when you’re never home during daylight hours. These short days are such a bummer, especially because I’m not able to snap a few pictures when I get home. Anyway, I have been working on a bit of Christmas decorating and have a bit more planned for the weekend (I […]
When my oldest dog Hudson was a puppy we took his picture in the yard with a Santa hat on and put it on a holiday card. Our friends and family couldn’t get over how cute he was. By the next year we had added another dog to the family and the two appeared in […]
You might have noticed that I’m a bit of a procrastinator. It is truly one of my least appealing traits (that and that I’m the antithesis of punctual). I think it’s the journalist in me. Almost every journalist I know is a huge procrastinator. I think it might be something related to endorphins and deadlines. […]
I was downloading some photos from the weekend Tuesday night and realized there were a few I’d taken just a couple weeks ago that I’ve not posted. One of the amazing things about living up north, where the seasons mean business, is how quickly things change. Although we’ve not had any snow yet (which is […]
I’m a champion online shopper. In fact it’s the main way I buy things now. Last year, I bought what I could locally from small merchants but everything else was purchased online. And it being Cyber Monday (really, they couldn’t think of a better name than that?) there are a lot of great deals out […]
Hi everyone! I’m more than a little excited to be guest posting on one of my favorite blogs today. House of Turquoise is one of my daily reads and it serves as a daily source of inspiration for me. If you’re not already reading it daily, you should be. And if you are a House […]
So help me God if I have to end up making a “countertops” label on this blog. My e-mail to Waterlox (by the way, I underestimated, it has happened way more than twice and technically the countertops are doing OK, but I had the problem again with the desktop): Dear sir or maam, I hope […]
I spent part of the weekend officially putting the last of the garden to bed for the winter. The new or sensitive plants have been caged and covered with shredded leaves, some of the perennials have been cut down (the others will be cleaned up in spring) and the spring bulbs have all been planted. […]
Yep, I yada, yada’d the counter topic. Frankly I’ve not provided an update because I’m SO bored with the whole project. Here’s the good news: things are going better (I think, but I’m a paranoid kind of girl so I’m not declaring victory yet) and I think I’ve identified the problem. Lest this blog turn [&hel
With a spare piece of window trim serving as a makeshift saw guy and a pair of clamps squeezed to within an inch of their lives, Mr. Much More Patient wielded the whirring circular saw. I stood by doing what every good carpentry assistant does: repeatedly hit the home button on my iPhone to light […]
In the interest of “keeping it real” I’m going to share the progress of working on the countertops for the office project well before I was planning to. I was hoping to go through this whole project and be able to show you the photo of the gorgeous countertops installed, and hopefully I will get […]
