Gardens 8:15 pm
Sad news.
Ok…so we bought this WAY cute moss covered cement turtle statue thing last year from Old Time Pottery.
It was SO cute!
Sadly, the other day while we were taking a turn around the backyard, we found turtle dead.
Orange dead.
Ewwwww!
Turtle has orange insides!
What is this madness?!
We like tuttles.
Turtle RIP.
Gardens and Uncategorized 8:09 pm
We’re calling this post “The Black Gate” …and we don’t mean to Mordor.
That would be a bad day.
Daddy surprised us this week by purchasing a black fence and gate for the “cottage garden”.
It matches the black fencing that we put in the back yard.
We’ve begged Dad for the last two years to take down that nasty white vinyl floppy over fence in the cottage garden.
He listened.
It looks SO good! Of course, it won’t look way good until the gardens are blooming.
Thankfully, our menfolk put up this new fence when the plants are not in bloom – otherwise…our flowers may not have survived.
We love to go to The Daily Grind in uptown Martinsville for some yummy coffee drinks!
On one visit, they had a display of cd’s by a group called the Celthix (check out their website and purchase the songs..you won’t be sorry!).
We figured that with an awesome name like that, we’d be sure to love the music.
We love every cotton-pickin’ song on the cd!
We love Celtic music and folk music and this group does a good combination.
The variety of instruments used is amazing, but the singing makes the cd!
Now go buy it!
After missing a couple of their concerts, we finally got the chance to see them perform last weekend (at The Daily Grind!).
This group is SO much fun to see in concert!
They played for almost 3 hours and we were sorry when it was over.
We are SO excited because we just found out that they’re going to be performing again in a few weeks!
Adri's Bedroom and Misc 12:26 am
Ok…so Dad nearly passed out when he opened our last electric bill.
That was so not a fun day.
Ever since, Dad has been desperately trying to insulate every inch of our drafty old house.
Dad and Owen decided to put insulation underneath the house back in December.
The crawl space entrances in the basement are very small.
Here is Owen getting on his insulation gear.
His outfit sorta reminded us of someone…
A few weeks ago, our heater died.
Dad had some men come out and install a new heater in the attic.
Our attic space is only a few feet high and not really an “attic” at all.
Noticing that there wasn’t much insulation in the attic, Dad did what any handyman would do in this situation…
He decided to rent a huge insulation blower thingy from Lowe’s.
Thankfully, Josh and Owen were willing to lend a hand.
We love having men around to lift the heavy machinery.
Adri wants to know WHY the door to the attic had to be her room?!
Dang that’s a lot of tubing.
Dixie wasn’t so sure about all this…
This thing reminded us of a computer from a 1950’s sci-fi movie (with all the lights and tubes and stuff).
Dad bought a ton of the insulation (that expands to 18x the package size), but ended up needing only 4 packages.
When you rent the blowing machine at Lowe’s, if you return it within 24 hours, the rental is free.
So for about $100 dollars, Dad was able to insulate the attic.
Here is Dad going “green” (pink?).
The opening to the attic…which only Owen could fit into.
We are eagerly anticipating our next electric bill…
well in a hopeful way.
Misc 11:25 pm
Ya’ll might have thought that we were tired of blogging….but we’ve just been very busy.
Hopefully, we will be adding some new posts this week!
Here are some cute pictures of Dixie opening her Christmas gift!
Poor Squirrel-Duck.
RIP.
