Screen Door Thursday, Aug 13 2009

Did you miss us? Sorry we’ve not been our regular blogging selves. We’ll try and pick up the pace again, especially since Daddy has been doing lots more projects lately.

One project Dad did for us this spring, was to put a much needed screen door off of the kitchen mudroom area.
Now we can fry bacon and chicken and it won’t smell like a fast food place because we can open the door!
Dad and Ariel were out flea marketing one weekend on the side of the highway some men were giving away free ugly chairs…so they pulled over (not for the free ugly chairs) because they had a screen door for sale.
The door happened to be the right size and in great condition (with original brass hardware to match our house!).
Dad got it for a mere $10!

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A New Garden Path Saturday, Mar 21 2009

Lately, the backyard has been giving us a headache…we’ve been trying to figure out what to do back there.
We decided that we want a garden path put down leading to what will be an “English cottage garden architectural salvage window bench” piece (it’ll make sense when we blog about it later…as in when Dad and Owen build it).
We have TONS of rocks all over our property which was perfect for creating the path.
Owen hauled the rocks for us and Dad made the path for us (in his usual professional manner).

 

 

 

To the right of the path we’ve decided to plant different varieties of hostas, ferns, fairy lilies, and other shade plants.
As soon as there’s no more chance for a frost, we’ll get to planting.

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The Black Gate Friday, Feb 13 2009

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.

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