This weekend we did a ton more stuff on the house and in the yard.
Holly and Libby finished scraping and priming two of the three other side of the house that still needed scraping.
I painted most of the south side of the house and about half of the front of the house.
I picked veggies at the farm, including 10 pounds of tomatoes!
And Clark trimmed and removed about 7 or 8 smallish diameter trees, a couple larger trees that were overhanging the neighbor’s pool, and the big arborvitae that was trying to take over the northeast corner of our house.
Yeah, as you can probably tell, Amy’s sister and her husband came down Saturday and Clark went to town with his chainsaw. He actually came back today and finished up all the stuff he couldn’t get to yesterday. While I know we needed to do a lot of this trimming and tree removal, it still pained me. What pains me more is that we’ve got two HUGE other trees that need to come down behind the garage because they’re dying and dropping branches. Yowza. It’s gonna be nekkid back there!
Photos eventually - I’m too pooped to pull out the camera cable…
How is it that Amy and I can spend days and days and days (all last weekend [3 days] and all this weekend [3 days] plus time after I get home from work and time when she’s around during the days and it’s not raining) working on the outside of the house, and all that we have to show for it is the back of the house scraped, primed, and painted and one side of the house scraped and primed? The back of the house doesn’t even have two coats on the whole thing, and I haven’t started trim yet.
Either we are too particular or this is a lot harder work than we anticipated. I’m going to go with a healthy dose of both those things.
Remind me again why we decided to paint the outside of our house. It’s a time vortex.
July 31, 2008
· By Megan · Filed under house, travels
Even though I haven’t posted in over a month, I’m still around. My time has been taken up with: hockey (camp, games, and tryouts), a trip to Acadia National Park, and work.
To keep you entertained for a moment, here’s a macro of a lovely hydrangea in our yard during a respite in a big storm:
And here is a sailboat from when we were up in Acadia National Park. It’s the Helen Brooks, a Friendship Sloop owned and chartered by Amy’s brother Karl.
What an amazing yard we’ve got! While Amy has done a TON of work on it the past two years, it had good bones to start, including a load of perennials in beds all over the place. My mom has asked for a bit of a tour (rather than all the close-ups) of the yard, so without further ado…
The side of our house - Vegetable garden in side yard
Back left side of yard - Back left corner of yard
Left side of yard is hosta heaven - Roses on trellis
Perennial garden in right side of backyard
More pictures are also available over at Flickr. If you’re so inclined, you can also watch the 3-minute tour of our yard below. It’s not super-exciting, but should place a lot of the above photos in context.
June 11, 2008
· By Megan · Filed under house, the dog
Our yard is going crazy right now! I took all these photos yesterday afternoon; by this afternoon everything changed (and I got home after the light changed - boo.) Hopefully things will be lovely tomorrow morning before work.
A small sampling (click on photo to embiggen, right click to open original photo at Flickr):
Bug or Flower?
Phlox and Peonies
Lupine (?) and Clematis
BUG!
And because no photo post would be complete without pictures of the poochies, I give you Miss Pooch and Still Life: Bliss with Ball.
What does your yard/porch/patio look like in the early summer?
