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Flower Bed

Timmy made this bed for me in the front yard in Oct. 2004. The soil in my yard is just not good. Don’t think anything was done to it since the place was built. I hoped that by raising the bed, I would have the chance to improve the soil.
The bed today, May 14, 2006. Yup, that sure worked!!! I have been slowly amending the soil, adding some composted leaves, rich topsoil, etc. The bed is actually retaining some water, and nutrients. Saw my first worm in there a few months back. Now, there are buds on my lavender plant. My Rosemary plants are doing well too. I have added mint, a new spanish lavender, thyme, savory, yarrow, jasmine vine, and some periwinkle. I have also put a weeper hose through the bed, to water more evenly and deeply…. I have high hopes this year that things will all take root and do well!

The view from the stairs, like the first picture.
My Iris’s from a few weeks ago. Posted by Picasa

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So, we gave the mouse a cookie….

This is Hamish the Red (the BAD) meeting Miss Tatiana for the first time. Really Tati is much friendlier than this!! However, for this purpose, it’s a BEFORE picture.

I HATE carpeted stairs! We have been talking for most of the nearly three years we’ve been in this house about improvements….over and above the cleaning and painting and such.

Timmy decided the other day to tackle the stairs, thinking that we would need to replace the stairs, which was fine business as we decided to add a half-wall built in bookcase next to them which would give us a lovely place to add a hand-rail.

However, it turned out the stairs weren’t all that bad, but they were kind of started IN the subflooring… which meant we needed to replace the diningroom floor instead of the stairs. Yes, that was me bawling you heard over losing such wonderful flooring(not).
Here you see the semi-after stairs. they still require staining on the step parts. The risers are actually left over Tundra Antique floor boards that I (brilliantly) suggested we place over the older, ratty stuff. Now, on to the floor itself.

Before. No, we haven’t removed the 1/4 round trim, the people before us (Harry the Homeowner and family) chose to not replace it after tearing up the carpet and replacing it with this gem of a floor tile. (BTW, that little gap is sure a cat-pleaser!! Hamish lost all manner of objects under there!)
 AFTER. I just need to touch up the red paint around the new baseboard moulding. This floor is courtesy of IKEA, my favorite store. It’s our fourth wedding anniversary gift to us!

Timmy got the brilliant idea to sharpen his shovel in order to remove the old tile more quickly….look at it fly!

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I’ve gone and done it now!!!

Welcome to version 3 of my notes from the refridgerator door…. long ago, (back in the ’80’s sometime), my favored way of communication with the variety of male relatives who wouldn’t clean the house was by ever so slightly sarcastic notes left on the refridgerator door….

Moving into the internet age, I attempted a web-page, but I found it clumsy, or I just wasn’t interested in keeping it up.

Today, with my cool 8 mega-pixel DSLR, I find myself wanting to send EVERYONE photos, but I hate re-sizing and uploading and having to email…. (I am slightly lazy)….

So, here is the ideal concept…a BLOG!!! oh, dear…we’ve gone and gotten cell-phones and digi cameras and now Blogs…we are not so caveman-like as we thought!!!

Well, off to learn how to manipulate the darned thing!
See ya!