Flowers 2012

 Last year I planted a little "window" box of Lavender and placed it on the little gazebo in the back yard... Here's a small sample of what bloomed this year... It has an absolutely wonderful smell... I love sitting in the back yard in the gazebo and smelling the lavender and gardenias... I planted some honeysuckle this year also...it's not very big yet...but it will be~

Here's one of 10 fushia baskets I have hanging in the yard! I finally was able to successfully "winter" some baskets from last year (completely by accident...albeit a happy one!) so I ended up with way more baskets than I usually have.. hopefully next year I will be as lucky!!

This is the wisteria that we planted in 2007... it bloomed for the first time this year!! I was sooo happy! This was literally a stick when we planted it...really... no root ball...no dirt... just a stick packaged in some sawdust... and now after 5 years of waiting it finally bloomed. =)

The camelia in the back yard. This one used to be in the front yard but we moved year before last to the back yard.. I wasn't sure about it since last year it didn't do very well... but this year it's covered in beautiful flowers.. so it must be happy enough.

Here's the little patio that George did last year... complete with my little swing and some pretty hanging baskets... I love to sit out here and drink my morning coffee on the weekends...or in the evening just relaxing... it's one of my little happy places... 

Guest room unveiled...

I just realized that I never posted any pictures of the finished Guestroom! So... here it is .... our gorgeous guestroom! We have gotten to use it for a guest yay! so just waiting for more visitors now =)

We are really happy with how it turned out! I wish it currently looked like this...however due to the kitchen painting project...it's full of food etc... so there will be pics of the new kitchen look hopefully before Thanksgiving!! and I've been working on making a library upstairs.... so hopefully that will be done this week... but I must say... after having hauled all of our books upstairs.... I really hate hardback books!!!! LOL

painting project...

So we had the wonderful idea to take the guest room....as seen above, and paint it and turn it into our bedroom...and then turn our bedroom into the new guest room.... lets see how it goes...


George the painter... :-)



The semi-finished room... we haven't moved up there yet, George wanted to replace the windows first but I think that project has been put on hold until some other things settle down again... George says it color is "tinkerbell" green but it's really not..but in some lighting it is similar

Home Improvements (small scale)

I know this is a small thing but these light fixtures have driven George crazy for eons!!

He hated the old style we had, and has been threatening to update them....

Well here is the updated version....TaDa!

They look pretty nice. I wasn't sure if they would let enough light out with the frosted cover that they have but with some florescent bulbs in them they light up the kitchen really nicely (once they warm up).

I'm kinda hoping we can find something for the dining room now these look so nice.

george's vacation?

we all know how hard George works year in and year out.. well, he FINALLY was able to take a much deserved vacation (?). Since the weather didn't cooperate as well as he had hoped he did get to have some down time before tackling the projects he wanted to get to.... So.... here he is at his first vacation task - new hardware for the kitchen cupboards. Once this task was completed he moved outside......

I really have to keep a close eye on him when he's out here with the mower or weed eater. He thinks everything is a weed!


we did get two new trees one is a mountain liliac that has the most unusual flowers and the other is a Japenese maple that George has wanted for a long time. George digs the holes and I go along behind plopping the plants in. It's a pretty good system.


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