In The Garden
In The Garden, originally uploaded by Phae.
I’m not a huge fan of geraniums, but this one amazes me with it’s wonderful hot pink blooms. The color is really stunning! And so fragrant, too.
I must apologize for my lack of photo-blogging, or blogging at all. I’ve taken a break from pretty much all but twitter lately, as my family and I work to make some major improvements to our home.
Since I last blogged we have: expanded our garden by nearly twofold, built a 300 square foot patio, and almost died. Ha. I’m telling you- we are really altogether too old and out-of-shape to be doing this stuff ourselves… but if you know me you know that I foolishly insist on pushing myself over and beyond my limits!
There are some just-ok photos (taken with my iPhone) of the patio going in and also of the new garden space on my flickr stream. It’s terrible but until today I haven’t picked up my “real” camera in what seems like forever! I’m on full-speed-ahead-build-stuff mode so that we can get it all done just in time to really enjoy our spaces this summer.
This weekend we will be working on the path that will connect our patio and Mom & Dad’s house, across the courtyard. And also- laying down sod. My guess is that it will take us two weekends of sod-laying before the courtyard resembles a real yard. I’m going to be STRONG come this summer. Either that, or comatose. 
We’ve accomplished so much now, just a few more weeks of Big Projects and I’ll be able to putter around again. Can’t wait to share before-and-after photos!
Thanks for stopping in!
Run, Pierre!
The last few weekends we’ve been hard at work outside- mostly constructing a maze of fencing around and about our property. We built a kennel for the dogs, a fortified chicken yard, and fenced off a large common area.
We would have loved to skip the fencing, doesn’t everything just feel altogether too fenced in these days? But we lost our previous chickens to a fox; and after constantly dealing with stray dogs and other security issues we knew we didn’t have a choice if we wanted to relax.
It was a big job and I’m really proud that we did it together, we did it right and it looks nice too. 
Not closed in at all. Except for in the chicken yard where we put up very tall fences. And that’s fine. Our eight chickens have tons of space to roam now, and so today we free’d them from their coops for the first time.
This photo is of Pierre Curie, our only rooster. What a face, eh?
You can see more pictures of our suburban backyard chickens here. Go look! You know you want to.
Spanish Lavender
We planted this Spanish Lavender in our flower beds a few weeks ago and it’s doing fabulous. Not to mention- it’s bringing in the bees, butterflies and hummingbirds by the droves. Happy Spring!
What I Want
