I can’t believe it’s been that long since my last post.
Oh wait, yes I can. I’ve been super busy. My office project culminated in office window-covering creation, which spurred on more window-covering creation, bathroom-type:
office curtain, open
curtain, closed
bathroom valance
Once my windows were nice and foo-fooed up, I needed to get back outside (yay! Nice weather!) –and also, I needed to do the standard, mom with kid running around like a headless chook-stuff (to include working on the house down the hill, alas still not sold but looking nicer, after helpers came to stage the yard and help paint the recently-repaired chimney.)
The back yard needed weeding (and poop control) and the front needed the same; to do more thorough weeding in the front I moved around the stones my mom had set in a mound, all singly sticking up a bit like tombstones, and I grouped ‘em together in a way I found a little more logical and aesthetically pleasing. I have determined, I’m a compulsive grouper. I had also taken some river rocks and other pebbles and made a sort of mini-dry creek for the down spout extender to flow into, and while I was at it, I extended out the area of pebbles just beyond the concrete pad/patio under the deck, creating… I dunno. Something better than a weed-and-moss infested drop-off. I also planted roughly 100 (or so?) bulbs, ranging form ixia to fairy lilies, gladioulus and anemones… should be fun to see what sprouts as the weather improves (and to try to figure what the critters have eaten to tide themselves through the cold season.) 00 I was thinking it seemed cold to be planting, but the instructions on the containers were very adamant “PLANT IMMEDIATELY.” so I did.
At any rate, some pix of yard-y stuff:
(I’ve added a few “before” shots as reminders)
front yard, before
front, before
front, after #1
front, early spring '10
…and on to the back:
back yard, June of '09 (pre purchase)
back yard, post-pruning frenzy
back yard from above
on-deck vegetable gardening
back yard, early spring '10
….and so it’s feeling pretty good in here, heading into spring, but there’s always something major to be done (and a big project being undertaken currently, which I’ll write about in a different post…)
