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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 25 2008 : 8:50:12 PM
So..hubby took the weed hacker to the yard tonight..yep..it needed it..but daughter came running in telling me..."hey mom dad said he's gonna hack down the cottage garden!" yikes..we hadn't even had a chance to collect all the seed we had wanted to!
But..it did need hacked down because after all the hot weather we have had lately..well some of those gals looked less than stellar..and from some wind and rain they all wanted to "lay down and be lazy" So..hack away he did!"
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We managed to get a few things to salvage seed from and of course I had to make sure the "mad man with the weed hacker" didn't hack down my sharifa asma rose that was hidden in amongst the cottage garden "jungle"..ha.
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So..I'll have to rake out what remains of the cottage garden area and come fall or next Spring we should see another crop of lovely flowers springing up.At the time the house will be "on the market" we shall hopefully see a new crop of pretty flowers.
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We had coreopsis, blanket flower and gloriosa daisies out there.
We are working diligently on getting the backyard back into shape..and as such..we have removed our garden and are turning the yard back into..."gasp"..yeah..a "lawn" again.
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I have learned alot from this place/backyard...and at the next place I do not plan on having alot of different flower beds..I think I want to have one large centrally located flower bed and then grow it out from there...not seperate beds for this and that.
I have lots of area here that has to be weed edged and in the summer time it becomes a real chore especially in temperatures where the heat index reaches 100 plus.
It makes for a bit more to maintain and to have to weed hack around and weed and mulch.
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Oh..and hydropinics...I am SO going to be doing hydroponic gardening for my veggies..at least some of them.
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This yard is landscaped very nicely..we had only 1 lone oak in the back yard when we moved here and then we put in quite a lot of trees and a courtyard eating area and so forth..but next home I intend to plan things out to the n'th.
And mulching..I am not going to skimp on mulching and weed blocking.
And when it comes to mowing..if I hire it done..the person coming in to mow..must have a clean mower.
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One year someone came in with a dirty mower..and we wound up with thousands upon thousands of dandelion seed heads all over the yard within 2 weeks time! yes I know dandelions are a nice thing and edible..but shiminy's you should have seen all the puff balls all over my yard after they got done..and never had them before..I could have been making some serious dandelion wine I tell you!!..ha.
So..this place has not been without its "lessons learned"
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I do think one of the things I will miss the most about this place and the backyard..is the drake elm outside my kitchen window..for in it I have hung several bird feeders, and a "see Rock City" bird house..but more than that..it is the "bird gathering tree"..a pair of ring necked doves visit it every day at the same time..and cuddle/snuggle together on the same branch every day.
And in the winter time tons of birds come to feed from the feeders.
That part of things I shall really miss..and of course being able to look out the kitchen window and see the bright cheeriness of sunshine colored flowers blooming in the cottage garden.
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But in life comes change..and I am ready for change..and am ready to pass the key soon to some new family that I hope will enjoy the things about this place that have made it a "home" for us for the last 8 yrs.
I hope that they will enjoy all the love and labor that we put into this place...and will nurture and care for this little bit of "country in the city".
For soon I will be off on another adventure that awaits our family..and I'll be someday soon making another house into a "home"..and another backyard into a "sanctuary".
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 26 2008 : 06:20:24 AM
hey Denise,
We'll be putting the house on the market come January and relocating to another town a 6 hr drive away..Ocala, FL.
As it is currently our parents are all getting up there in age...my in laws are 75 and 69 and my mom is 63..so we want to be near them now to be able to take care of them if they should need it.
For 18 yrs of our marriage we have been a 6 hr drive from my in laws and a 9 hr. drive away from my folks.The only parent I have left is my mom now and it would be nice to be closer to her and my 2 sisters, and my husband is an only child, so it will be nice to be there for his folks.
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Alee, yes it is a nice place here..a large yard about half an acre..one of the largest yards in the neighborhood as it is one of the first homes built in this subdivision back in the 70's..so there are only 3 houses on this particular block and all 3 houses have yards about the same size..large yards compared to everything else in the neighborhood..all the other houses in the neighborhood are all closer together.
My neighbor tells me that she remembers back when they built her house and this one and another neighbors..that there was nothing around the houses back then except for woods all the way to the water.
So everything moved in after these homes were built.
Paul and I have put loads of work into this place since we moved in here..but still a few things left to do. Mostly just interior painting though.We just painted the exterior 2 yrs ago.And new a/c unit and duct work 2 yrs ago.
All the other major stuff was done right after we moved in.
We went totally "no carpet" in here several years back..let me tell you..going totally "no carpet" is definitely the way to go! It was loads of work ripping out all the carpet and old 70's style linoleum up off the floors, but so worth it on keeping the dust and allergens down, and so much easier to keep clean.
If the next place has carpets we'll most likely do the same thing there.
But yes..it has been a nice home with a nice layout and nice big yard.
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| Alee |
Posted - Jul 26 2008 : 05:52:41 AM
Tina- It sounds like an absolutely gorgeous house. Too bad it would cost too much to translocate it and the property to Billings! 
Alee
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Jul 26 2008 : 03:43:16 AM
Tina,
Will you be moving to another part of town, state or out of state?
Sounds like you have had a lovely 8 years there.
Denise
farmgirl sister #43
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neck in hot water...it sings!"
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