Happy first day of spring. It has been snowing all day. Today I'm thinking about spring cleaning. Well, just cleaning. And it happens to now be spring ( Read more... )

This week, having finished projects, costumes, college application, and the time of daylight saving, I briefly reached a point of feeling Caught Up On Life. It was glorious. Ways I used up my fleeting free time included:


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Sometime last year, Xuth and I agreed that we wanted to create a pathway next to our driveway that would serve as a way to reach the house when the driveway was in use that did not involve walking over the yard (or through snow, in the winter). After pondering a variety of options, including browsing paver patterns online and in hardware stores, ( Read more... )

The sidewalk is finished! (1 ( Read more... )

Due to laziness plus vacation I skimped on making any State of the Yard posts for the last month and a half, but now we're totally back in business. Today's SOTY edition: ALL APPLES ALL THE TIME ( Read more... )

The thing most worth noting in this SoTY post is that it hasn't noticeably rained in over two weeks, a major departure from last month. I attempted to remember to water things that needed watering, but I'm not very good at that, and I think some of my patches of baby grass are now dead, and none of the seeds I planted last month have done ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to post other things but that keeps not happening. At least SOTY posts are keeping me writing, even if this one is late ( Read more... )

People have been asking me about those pavers I talked about planting, so I went back in time and took pictures of what I did.

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Hey, it's time to do State of the Yard posts again! Yay!

Springtime seemed to come suddenly in the second week of March. The first croci in my yard appeared on March 18. Somewhere around April 1 the next flowers bloomed: some mini daffodils ("Little Gem"?) I acquired from a sale easter pot last year. A week later, and most of my regular ( Read more... )

In just 3 more days, the Boy moves out of this house and into his dorm at Pitt. His mother is up here this weekend working on a massive bedroom cleanout project with him, which I am incredibly thankful for, because omg does it need it ( Read more... )