What We Built Today

I'm too tired to even describe it much, except to say it's probably the biggest raised garden bed in town. LOL. More pics and information later; just wanted to post this for now.

It's rough-cut cedar and is 4x16' long and 15" high.

Update! Plants in bed have been moved by now, and it's almost filled--over 1,000 lbs. of compost, humus, topsoil, etc. later! And the six new eggplants that started this whole crazy process have been planted in the far end.

Happy spring! (and Thank God for pain pills.)

bobbi c.

One step forward, two steps back. . .

Or maybe that should be TEN steps back.  Although the front of the house is ready for primer and Husband has done magic with hiding where the former second front door used to be (YAY!), other things have slowed down.

It's the amazing disappearing front door!

Since I last wrote, we've had a "spot of bother" as my Brit friends say.  First, during my garden shed re-do, I somehow managed to rip some of my organs and/or perhaps set some kidney stones loose.  The doctors are indecisive.  They suggested aspirin and rest. Riiiiight. 

I'm not sure HOW it happened, but if I had to guess, I'd say it had something to do with the behemoth clawfoot tub, antique wood doors that weigh 50-lbs. each, and my mule-headedness about not bothering Husband when trying to move them around. Yep, that could do it.

Gee, that thing can't be THAT heavy, can it?  I'll just give it a shove and get it outside!

So that project is temporarily on hold while my innards heal.  Hopefully.  Stay tuned, because there's more. . .

 I walked into the shed last week and the STANK  knocked me over.  We've had issues out there before with the ancient plumbing and the fact that some unnamed agent sold the place as a two-bathroom dwelling with nothing more than an toilet and a big hole in the floor out in the cottage.  The problem with cement slabs is that you have no clue what's under them. Surprise, surprise! as Gome would say. 

So.  Long story short.  Crumbling clay pipes.  Sewage from the Big House that flows downhill.  Underneath the cottage.  $1,000 to tap into the city sewer at the street.  Many bijillions of dollars more to get the pipes from the house to the street.

Not to mention the Likely Demolishment of the Garden.

So, maybe it's time to re-assess what I was going to do this spring, and concentrate on plants in pots out back where I KNOW they won't be digging.  Or I hope they don't be digging.  Maybe I'll get more writing done?  I'm a "glass-half-full-of-tequila" kinda gal.

But, if I EVER again speak the words "I want a house nobody else wants," just shoot me, 'K?

Happy trails from Texas!

bobbi c.

Spring already?

Dear friends,

Still working furiously trying to get the Two Sisters Cottage ready for our move. Spring seems to have come early in a lot of the U.S. Bulbs are already blooming, fruit trees are budding out. Here are just a few current photos from the garden here.

Spring Onions

Happy Kale & Brussell Sprouts

Heirloom Narcissus Bulbs Blooming

Happy Red Wheelbarrow Filled with Rainwater

Nasturtiums Growing in Pot

Oxalis Bloooming under Pecan Tree

Purple Heart coming back after Winter

Dianthus (Pinks) Blooming in a Galvanized Tub with Sweet Marjoram

A Gorgeous Volunteer Sunflower from the Bird Feeder

Dianthus (Pinks) Blooming in the Flower Bed--one of my favorite old fashioned flowers

Another Old Rose Emerges!

And another!

Another Antique Rose

New Growth on Resurrected Rosebush in Gorgeous Red Color

New Growth on Unidentified Holly

Baby Thistles! Hiss Hiss Boooo!

Another Red Antique Rose with Bronze Leaves (I actually have one of these in my other garden. I just need to look the name up.)

A New Pink Rose Emerges!

Another Surprise Clump of Narcissus in the Flower Bed--they are coming up all over the property!

Autumn Joy Sedum coming Back from Winter--one of my new favorites

More coming soon!

Dig it!

bobbi c.