chasing the clouds away
the sun is out and it’s 70 degrees. know what this means? i’m already way behind on all my spring projects for the house.
i’d post more flower pictures, but you can see them below.
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Tulips are up
springtime!
no, it’s not “springtime for hitler,” but the yard is coming alive with color.
link to Yard + Flowers 2007 photoset on flickr – we’ll be updating this as the year blooms on!
1/3 of a long weekend spent on the house
last weekend we had one amazing day of weather (saturday). like, upper 60s and sunny. i took advantage of this to clean up the yard, re-cut some landscape edges, do some random work in the front. but the big news, is that i smashed my finger with a hammer.
the new chairs
new house color
yes, i’ve been procrastinating. here’s the new color of the house!
remember, the under-porch area isn’t painted because we’re going to enclose it and make a back hallway between the kitchen and the laundry room.
the dahlias continue to bloom.
yes, it’s the middle of october. but some of our late Dahlias are just getting started! let’s hope they all bloom before we get out first frost.
sadly, some of them succumbed to their own success — we had some heavy rain, and the blooms were so big, and collected so much water, that it toppled the stems. but most of them did well. next year, we hope to make them bloom a little earlier, so we’re not going so late into the season and risking bad weather at the end of the season.
all hands on deck!
yep, that was our weekend. work on the deck.
i have to say, fixing a deck, restoring, refinishing, replacing bad parts, etc. takes a heck of a lot longer than actually building one.
about halfway through this project, i stopped and thought to myself…. wouldn’t a nice patio look better in this place? heh.
but today we got major carpentry and staining/preserving done. all we have left is installing the lattice, and making the “gate” for the “loading dock” end. but i can build that in the shop, so good weather isn’t particularly necessary.
also, last weekend – we moved a ton of gravel. yeah, literally. (why did the stone yard load 2600lbs of gravel into a 1/2 ton truck?) but the front walkway was re-set into gravel (instead of sand) and now it feels rock-solid.
of course, all of this is useless without pictures. will try and get some this week after work. and we still have dahlias blooming, which is crazy. i hope they flower before the first frost hits.
projects, projects, projects.
why no update in so long?
see the title, it says it all. we’re elbows deep in summer projects on the house. currently happening simultaneously: exterior paint. refinishing deck. continued landscaping upgrades/maintenance. we have to make hay while the sun shines, so to speak.
the weather has gotten more cooperative, for the most part. as long as it stays dry until we re-install the gutters, i’ll be happy. (and so will the gutters – they’ll actually be functional once we re-install them correctly!)
i could drone on and on but instead i’ll choose to wait until tonight, to take and post more pictures of the front yard. the dahlias are blooming!
