Where we live...

House "before", just after we bought it in 1995...
what were we thinking!!???

It was definitely a fixer-upper!
(click on pictures to enlarge)

(pretty ugly, I KNOW! Sheesh!)

The new deck is on, now the roof...

Now painted taupe and sporting a new screen door,
this was our house about six years ago.
More things to do...
{and we KNOW how cute flags make a house!!!!}

New windows and window boxes, {made by yours truly....}

{Winter time......doot dee doot dee doo}
{Darn, I forgot to take the dead flowers out of the window boxes!!}
{again ;)}

Then we put in this stone wall.
An improvement over the 1970's railroad ties!
cha cha cha--


This is our house today { I got more ROAD than house in that shot!}
Aren't the pink flags cute! {haha, snort}
We have been redoing the grass, that is why it is brown. And the pink flags mark where the sprinklers are. If I waited any longer to get a shot of the house with green grass and all, it would be winter again!

Okay, so I waited longer and it didn't snow....sheesh! But the grass is
growing in nicely and I pulled the pink flags yesterday!!

OUCH!!!!

I had only been stung once that I can remember,
when I was about 9 years old.
Now add two more times in two weeks to that!

Once on my finger (while I was dutifully
helping paint an old city building for my
son's Eagle Scout project) by a wasp-- HIM!




and once on my thumb (while dutifully watering my
flowers in the back yard) by a honey bee-- THIS GUY!!

AARRGH!!!

a little tutorial.....

My husband asked me to grow some grass in a pot, (umm, that doesn't sound right), so he could see how fast it grew. You see, we (he, as in my husband's idea) are reseeding our lawn after much roundup and killing of the bermuda grass and thatching and....so forth and so on...anyhoo, I did, and thought you might like to see how fast it really does grow!

Find a pot and some rye grass seed.....



Put dirt in pot...


put grass seed on top, lots and lots of it...


cover with a little more dirt...oh, and water it...


Then in about 3-4 days you will see this...


and another day or so later you will see this...(be sure to keep it moist!)




and before you know it, in about 7 days, you will have this...



and every day it will grow almost so fast you can see it!!



Like this....


And, wala!!! You have a really cute pot of grass!
(just to look at, you know!)