Oh boy has life just been whizzing by or what!!! We have moved yet again. This time smack dab in the middle of town. Not real crazy about it being a country girl at heart. I do have enough room for my garden boxes and there is a nice variety of birds and squirrels to watch but I miss the quiet of the country side. We live on a main street so it's constant cars, oh and less than a block behind a train track which my grandson absolutely loves. He's obsessed with trains and the crossing gate is referred to as "Nana's gate".
Anyway you know whenever there is a move you have a project list that goes on and on. I did have a summer garden but that's over now I have started my seeds and planted starts of kale, collards (to be eaten I'm sure by my veggie loving dog), Chinese cabbage, lettuce, onions, radishes and soon I'll plant garlic. The deer are actually worse here than they were in the country. Not sure why that would be but in 4 years there I never had a deer issue and now it's a constant battle.
We are working on the front porch now. Well actually hubby is working I'm sitting on the swing watching and encouraging :-) The house is a 1935 small house and the front porch was practically falling in. Someone thought it would be a good idea to install these huge columns meant for a much larger house so they have been removed, the floor decked over and simple 6x6 columns are now in their place. The house was white dirty and peeling all over. It has been painted "grassland" green with "muslin" trim. I have a nice wicker swing which is my comfort zone and I found the prettiest butterfly to hang on the wall. I'm all about some butterflies now. The front yard is mostly gravel since it's the only area for parking but there is a small section which is on the project list to be converted to a butterfly garden.
Okay so now I have to get some things in order so I can be a little more productive with the projects that I can actually work on. Gotta go make a LIST.
