animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

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Today was my birthday. I’m not one for pomp and circumstance, so the day was low-key. In fact, Brian spent the day tearing off the back porch roof at the office. After remodeling the office, I decided that I’m too old for this bullshit, but I do plan on helping …

tomatoes

As promised, some pictures of the tomatoes. The ones on the right used the tomato teepees and the ones on the left did not. As you can see the ones that used the teepees are almost twice as tall. I do have some flowers on both sets of plants, so …

more pics

This is a picture of the “other side” of the house. There’s no yard here, as the driveway, which we share with the neighbor, takes up this side of the property. The greenery shown here is a myrtle patch (complete with a photobomb). In retrospect, I kind of wish I …

still leaking

The pond is driving me insane. I thought I found the leak. When we set up the stream, we used two overlapping pieces of pond liner (a big no-no). I knew this wasn’t a good idea, but it worked for a couple of years, so I figured it was ok. …

memorial day weekend

The weekend went by like a whirlwind. I don’t think we did anything out of the ordinary on Friday night, but the rest of the weekend was quite busy. On Saturday, we went to Costco, as mentioned in a previous post. That took up much of the morning and afternoon. …