TA DAH!

Rubbermaid strikes again! This building is 4.8' square for $399 from Lowes. It's another block checked in our quest to have all our stuff under cover before winter.

Our final storage building was a snap to assemble and holds all the garden equipment including the mower, pressure washer, mini-tiller, spreader & weed wacker. I may even be able to sneak in a few rarely used but necessary implements and some lawn fertilizers.
This frees up the big Canadian storage building that we moved over from Grey Eagle Drive for the important stuff, like Fiat parts, etc. with no more tripping around the lawn mower.

TOTALLY FLOORED!

A nice piece of plywood goes over the blocks. We coated it liberally with waterseal. Then we assembled the plastic floor and secured it to the wood on top of the blocks.

We hauled in some gravel to neaten it up.

BLOCK PARTY!

Not a fun time! We partied with blocks until we had 'em all in place for yet another storage building! We dug sod & clay soil. We planned to STOP! when we had them in place, but....

A BASKET FULL OF SUN

Thought the entry at Angelcrest Manor needed a spot of colour, so I put up a basket of sunflowers.

I added some rather unconvincing grape vines and called it good.

IT WILL BE A COLD DAY IN JULY...

Well, it WAS a cold day in July...in fact a cold weekend! So we put on our sweaters and naturally I made some chicken noodle soup. I'm going for the record of making HOT soup in every month of this year!

Tried out this new Krusteaz "natural" honey cornbread mix...it was very good. You add egg, oil and milk. I also added some shredded cheese. Yummy and a good, convincing cornbread texture.

GETTING HIS COOL ON

Our new garage door here at Angelcrest Manor is not insulated. What to do?

Cut panels of builders foam ( it comes in 4' x 8' sheets, foiled backed, 1" thick), stick it to the inside of the door with Liquid Nail! Those angled pieces are just to hold the foam in place until the glue dries. Keeps the heat out in the summer and keeps the heat in the winter when we run the gas heater.

MELLOW YELLOW

Yeah, I'm a sucker for fragrant yellow roses. This is a Weeks rose (really a Jackson Perkins registered hybrid) called "Radiant Perfume." It has a strong citrus smell and gets about 4" across.

JARRING EXPERIENCES

I've had this strawberry jar for a few years so I decided to grow strawberries in it...even though I knew it was pretty much useless.

I did fill it with the best potting soil and surprise! We're actually getting a few strawberries for our cereal! I water it almost daily and give it lots of fish fertilizer each week.

MS. GOT ROCKS!

Somehow, I can't live without 'em....rocks. Jack always says, "She never saw a rock she didn't like!" I plead genetic predisposition (from my mom).

The Brat with 460 lbs of common field rock for 9 cents a pound. Later I had to get 350 more pounds to complete the dry stack wall.


My arms feel longer now!