Archive for the 'yarden' Category

Dripworks, part one: The Order

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Glory be, it’s gardening time! You know, we’ve been working on our gardens here at Hello House for 2.5 years now, and there’s still so much work to do. Which I think is great. How sad would it be if all our planting was done in the first year?
One of the reasons we aren’t done [...]

Urns

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

My family rented the whole time I was growing up. Between that and living in Florida, our houses were pretty much always plain, with few or no interesting architectural features. Needless to say, these days I’m a sucker for nice accents in my house. (And not a single room is painted white!)

deadbeat masons

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

no pics for this post. why? because after waiting two months for AAA-1 Masonry to do some much-needed work on the front of our house, we’re giving up and asking for our deposit back.

tree! update

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

it might not look like much now, but in a couple weeks it’ll be covered with white flowers. and then you’ll be jealous.
   

tree!

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

we bought a tree tonight for our new front-yard landscaping. it’s a serviceberry: amanchelier canadensis. (and i typed that from memory, thankyouverymuch.)

bye-bye, front yard

Friday, August 5th, 2005

the full story later…

yes, our minds are in the sewer.

Friday, July 29th, 2005

yes, we’re comfortable with that.