adding colors

  I have been doing a lot of planting around the house. Everything looked so green that I thought it was about time to add some color, so I  did.  There is still a lot to go, but I am happy to ...

chicks & hens

Love this plant! Last year I bought two of these plants; I planted one outside to see how well it would do in the winter, the other I planted in a pot and placed it on the window sill.   The top pho...

wild

They say tulips are very resilient plants and very low maintenance, but I never thought to see this one grow here....

breakfast request

Kids are too demanding these days. This morning’s request was corn muffin.  I tried to offer something else, told him it was going to take a while; but none of that worked.  So I decided to ma...

happy 2012!

I hope you all had a wonderful time during the holidays. 2011 had its ups and down for me but overall it was a good year.  I finally accomplished things I had in mind to do for a while; one being the...

is alive!

This is one of the bushes that got hit badly with the storm.  It was completely flat against the ground.   Happy it came back to life and with such flaming color! The Japanese maple right next to it...

pears to spare

We have a couple of small pear trees and small apple trees in our backyard. When we bought the house the previous owner told us that the reason for their size is that they are dwarf trees and that the...

back in business

These past few days have been a little crazy for all of us here in the east coast.  Despite the inconvenience of not having power, internet, phone or TV; I am very lucky that we are all ok and we did...

reuse/recycle

I bought a curtain rod that came with three of these brackets.  Two went at each end of the rod and the third one in the middle in case the distance to cover was too long it could be use for support....