It IS Snowing Right Now!

January 6, 2025 Just after my previous post, Bruce took Nox outside for a potty break. It was lightly snowing! Nox was ready to get inside after her potty break. Snow, no thank you! She wanted to get up on the people bed and enjoy the massage feature. She can be very clear she wants […]

Seeds on the Way

January 5, 2025 I love planning my garden at this time of year. I was busy ordering seeds online from Southern Seeds, when by chance I looked out my office window on Friday (January 3). The moon was a beautiful crescent with Venus nearby, brightly shining. I took a picture through my window, then I […]

A Busy Couple of Days

January 2, 2025 On New Year’s Day, Bruce noticed a couple of flickers in the backyard, fairly close to the house. We walked over to the sliding door and watched them for a while. The wind calmed down and Bruce decided to use his chainsaw to cut the branches off the fence. He also cut […]

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2025 I wish everyone a Happy New Year! Wow! It is hard to believe that 2024 is done! I’ll have to get used to writing and typing 2025. This always takes me a while. Last week, Bruce complained the tall garden beds hid the short garden beds. He also mentioned that if we […]

Loose Piece of Tin on Shed Roof

December 28, 2024 With all the rain, some wind blew past as well. Thursday night, Nox was making a racket, whining and crying, so Bruce got up to see if she needed to go out. Lucky me, I slept through the racket. Bruce took Nox outside and she did need to go out. Bruce said […]

Rain and More Rain

December 28, 2024 The weather has turned rainy. Earlier in the week, Thursday was predicted to partly cloudy with Friday being rainy. By Christmas (Wednesday), rain was in the forecast for Thursday as well. On Thursday, it rained on and off. Since it was raining on Thursday, we decided to do some shopping at Rural […]

Putting Together a Large (12 Piece) Tall (29 Inches) Raised Metal Garden

December 25, 2024 Yesterday, we finished putting together the large (12 piece) short (15 inches) garden beds from Epic Gardening’s Amazon shop. Our configuration is 4 feet by 8 feet. These garden beds are from Australia and the company is Birdies Garden Products. For their USA customers, they sell their garden beds through Epic Gardening. […]

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2024 Besides a new roof for Christmas, we also bought twelve metal garden beds. The first six arrived last week and the rest arrived yesterday, just in time for Christmas. We finished putting together the short beds (17’) beds yesterday. Thanks to a reminder from Leslie from https://www.lbowmanstudios.com/ and https://theadventuresofbiteydog.com/ about her experience […]

Pictures of the Yard

December 21, 2024 Here are some random pictures of the yard. The half plastic barrels are great for holding large yard bags open so we can safely put poison ivy in the bags.

Putting Together the Birdies Metal Garden Beds

December 21, 2024 With the disappointing results from the soil tests, we decided to use raised garden beds with premium topsoil and compost. We are going to purchase topsoil and compost to fill the beds. Yesterday, the boxes for the short beds arrived from Amazon. We bought Birdies metal garden beds from Epic Gardening’s store […]