Mr. SP worked really hard this past weekend to get our new door installed. We are both happy that this project is finally complete. The top of the door has an interchangeable panel that can either be a screen or glass. It’s still stinking hot here, so for now we have the screen in place. …
A few weeks ago I posted a list of things that I wanted to accomplish on the side entrance to our home before fall. This list was pretty short: find or make a planter box for the new porch landing, install a new hose holder, and build a path from the sidewalk to our hose….
Is there anything more exciting to a gardener than a new flower bed? The idea of a planting space full of fluffy, freshly amended soil ready to be planted made me giddy with anticipation. The new flower bed is actually an extension of a current flower bed that parallels the street. We extended it so…
There are a few a lot of things I’d like to accomplish outside before it gets cold. Two involve improving the curb appeal of the outside of our house. This is our front entrance now. Our new sidewalk and porch landing has made the biggest difference in the entrance to our home. Now for what…
Our friends recently bought a house with a yard full of Boxwood. They don’t like Boxwood and told me to take as many plants as I’d like. Many of their plants are overgrown and too big for the spaces that we needed to fill but luckily there were a lot of a smaller Boxwood variety…
There are so many yard projects to do around here that it’s hard to decide where to start. I purchased plant material for the berm in our front yard and for the bed beside our deck and we were able to get the planting completed in these two areas this weekend. Finding the plants to…
The past couple of days have been stressful around here. Our driveway is done (woo-hoo) and we love it. The stressful part has been getting our yard back into shape. Crews worked here Saturday and again today and we hope to soon have a green lawn once again. Would you like to see the nearly…
Are you sick of hearing about my driveway project? Let’s just say that I am more than ready to have my yard back to normal and to have things looking nice around her once again. Living in a construction zone for almost four months has not been easy. It’s not often that a couple gets…
Our driveway project is moving right along. We now have a parking area that is usable! I tested my new parking space for the first time this evening. The deck stairs were put back in place today. The landing that leads from the deck to the new patio was also finished yesterday. The area in…
We’ve had a beautiful week here in Virginia which resulted in the driveway crew getting a good bit of work accomplished this week. The old steps were torn off of our front porch and the start of the new steps were constructed. We discovered that our two front porch posts are starting to rot, so…
Woo-Hoo! I’m on spring break! I am so much looking forward to having this coming week off. It was in the 80’s yesterday so Mr. SP and I headed to the lake to look at our lot and enjoy the warm temperatures and the sunshine. One day we’ll sit on our deck or porch and…
Our yard has now been in disarray for over two months and we have very little to show for it. In January our new driveway was cut out, graveled, and rolled. It snowed multiple times, was cold, and then rained over and over. Once the crew started back to work on the driveway, they realized…