Are you ready to see the fruits of our hard labor throughout the month of May? Here’s a grand tour of our front and back yards just before our Memorial Day cookout. :) It rained overnight and blew some leaves and whatnot into the new mulch, but it still looked great and we’re really proud [...]
Tags: brandice, deck, gardening, House, mulch, pics, plants, yard
I’m really loving my air plants (tillandsia). Anyone else an air plant lover? If you’ve never heard of them, they’re incredibly easy to manage, cheap to buy (tons of them on Etsy), and I think they’re beautiful. No roots, no soil, just some sunlight and weekly water soaking. You can glue them to just about [...]
Tags: air plants, brandice, House, pics, plants, tillandsia
I keep forgetting to post the shots of my fun bonzai succulent… check it out! I purchased it from The Succulent Garden on Etsy, and I initially over-watered it unintentionally, but it’s drying back up to a happy state of affairs. :) I love all the red-tinged succulent noodles… I’m such a succulent junkie. :) [...]
Old dishwasher that came with the house: New (to us) dishwasher that Jim’s parents no longer need because it was replaced after their house fire (it still works perfectly fine, just needed cleaned up): Jim and his dad were working hard on switching them out today, and then they fixed the downstairs shower so that [...]
Tags: african violets, basement, brandice, camera, dishwasher, Dogs, door, doorway, eye-fi, House, jim, mae, pics, plants, window
Woo hoo!! Got lots o’ planting done this past weekend with my friend Tim. :) First we planted the Eastern Redbud that my mother gave me for my birthday: We also planted this Mountain Fire Pieris that I picked up the other day on a whim: And there’s the Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick tree, which [...]
Tags: friends, gardening, planting, plants, tim, trees, weekend, yard
Check out what’s been growing around these parts! I’ve spent a good portion of time so far this April identifying what’s growing on this new property of ours. Here’s everything I grabbed shots of in early April, starting with two shots of the buds from what we think at this point is a magnolia tree: [...]
There are very few things that I can keep alive other than myself at this stage in my life… My cat seems to be fairing well (although my husband is the one to remember to feed her most of the time), I once had a fiddler crab that kept my interest for almost a year, [...]
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