I love flowers. My middle name is Rose, for heaven’s sake. I’ve always had flowers around me. For years, I used to get a bouquet of flowers from the grocery store every week. Then, I moved here to Seattle, and while I don’t have flowers growing outside year-round, for much of the year, I do. […]
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I’m only now starting to realize just how sick I’ve been with the tooth – first with the infection, then the extraction, then dealing with the aftermath of the extraction. Basically, I was sick for three weeks, not working at full capacity. Ouch. But I’m better now. So much better now. I was grouchy one
Fair warning – may be getting into too much detail for some people. TMI, DR: Basically, I’m fine. It’s just going to be some months before I’m healed. So – for the rest of you – more gory details. I had a tooth extracted last week. It was a back molar, the last tooth on
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Since I moved out to the property, I’ve wanted to have a deck in the back of the main house, out the back door. However, I never moved forward on that project. This year, at one point Blaze and I were talking about what we wanted to do around the property this summer, what projects
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And it’s going to be yet another gorgeous day outside. Yay! Today I’ll mow. And spend some time working on the patio. Don’t really have time to do a lot of weeding, but that’s kind of next on the list. It’s supposed to rain tomorrow, but be pretty nice all of next week. So far,
A couple years ago, we bought a composting system composed of two 50-gallon bins on a poll that you can spin. Idea was pretty simple. Fill one bin over the course of a year. Let it sit and “compost” for a year, while we fill the second bin. Empty the first bin, let the second
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As some of you may remember, I did the majority of the electrical work in the tiny house. I had a professional help me initially set up the breaker box, as well as wire in the tankless water heater. But I did the rest of the work. I’ve been having problems recently with one of
I broke my mower last year. I don’t want to go into details. Let’s just Mistakes Were Made. If I break it again this year, I promise that I’ll do something different and unique. (^_^) Because occasionally I excel at procrastinating, I didn’t immediately order new parts. Not until this spring when it occurred to
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I figured I hadn’t done one of these in a while. This post is mainly pictures of the various things blooming out here on the property this spring. It’s really lovely. So fair warning – lots of photos under the cut!
Years ago, I used to have problems with my kitty, Kiera, not using her litter box to poop in. She almost always used it to urinate – I think there’s been a grand total of three times when she hasn’t. In order to get her to use her litter box more regularly, I started praising