White peonies are nice and all…
But the red ones? They are stunning!!!
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 | More terra cotta pot design… The birds kept drinking the nectar that was for the butterflies so I built them their own stinkin’bird bath.
Do you think I need to put up a sign so they know which one is for which? Adam’s sister gave him a subscription to The Family Handyman for Christmas a couple years ago and we love the magazine and the ideas we’ve gotten from it. Just in the past 3 weeks we’ve built benches,a grill table,and today I hung my deck boxes that I built from a section of gutter. They turned out so well and I filled them with more annuals that should attract butterflies.
 I made 5 boxes altogether  This is the box,the table Adam built in its folded position,and one of my new rose bushes... Hopefully it takes and starts to grow!
 More deck box,more rose below  3 on one side...  ...and 2 on the other I’m really happy with how they turned out! I hope the butterflies like them just as much! So I got all of those hedges cut away in the back yard. I had only 50% left of the last bush (creeping juniper,aka snake bush) and guess what? I saw a SNAKE! (a large-ish rat snake,to be exact) There was screaming,there was running,there was never vowing to go outside again.
Lucky for me I have good friends and a great hubby. The friends shook the rest of the bush to scare the snake away and then Adam cut out the rest of the plant. The garden is free of unwanted plants AND snakes. What a relief!
We have been so so busy lately! Gardening,tree trimming,playing,destructing,constructing,screaming,running… The screaming and running will have to come later. Today I’ve got pictures of destructing and constructing. Ever since we moved into our house we’ve thought that the deck was wrong.
We have this big huge yard and have to come off the deck from the side and it just feels wrong. ON top of that,the small area where we walk down to the back yard is also where the dog poops. Yucky!
So this weekend,Adam decided to remove a section of the railing. Once the railing was removed,we got to thinking about stairs. We came up with a plan,and then he implemented it.
And it looks pretty good! Once we get the deck power washed something this summer,we’ll stain this the same color as the rest of the deck and it will be all matchy-matchy. Should be great!
The next step in our plan (long-term,lots of money) is putting in a patio at the bottom of the steps with a fire pit. Sounds nice,doesn’t it? Want to contribute to the fund? :) | |||||
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