Friday we got Jessie's grandmother in. She's been visiting for a while, and yesterday we went to the wildflower center and hung out with some cousins that also live in Austin. It's spring, so the bluebells and other wildflowers are out in full bloom. I got to pick up some wildflower seeds for experiments with our yard, but those are best to plant in the fall, so I'm hanging on for now. But I have a lot of seeds, so I can plant a lot of them, if I want.
Then today was home improvement day! We've added some upgrades to the outside of the house.
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Hummingbird feeder! Just a little for now, to see if we get any.
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Regularbird feeder! Because regular birds need food too. We're hoping we don't get *too* many pigeons, but there are quite a lot of them around here.
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Mulch! I didn't get enough to cover everything, but this is a pretty good start, I think. I also probably should have gone for normal 'mulch' color, as opposed to 'Scorched Earth Black'. I'm still experimenting.
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I have a couple of wide pots where I'm growing some things to see how they turn out. The big thing in the middle is actually a tree I rescued from our lawn before the mowers came by. I want to see if I can get some potted trees. Maybe I'll even Bonsai them if I get crazy enough. The rest of the pot is filled with wildflower seeds, which are just barely sprouting, and some native grasses I just threw in. I'm excited by the idea of replacing the lawn with native grass someday. It grows better, requires less maintenance, and if you get the right types, you don't even have to mow, if you don't want to. Neat.
And finally...
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| From New Album 4/12/09 5:25 PM |
We had a broken sprinkler head. We discovered it while we were looking for hail damage. It was just spewing water all over and making a mess. Not good, and wastes water. So today we went out, found the right sprinkler head, installed it and adjusted it. Next time I'll wait until the ground is a little bit drier. We made a lot of mud.
Gotta go, soon, company here, but we're getting a new roof from our insurance company, work is pretty great, and we're getting visitors soon!
-N
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haha Blue Bells! He meant Blue Bonnets! (I've been saying Blue Bells and he's been correcting me) Oh, and when he says 'we' did all the sprinkler stuff, he means 'HE' did it all, such a handyman around the house!! :) J(5)
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