Well, after a hiatus of almost all summer, I am getting back to my blog. In that time, we have had the house painted, carpeted, weatherized; and I have been the general contractor. I have had fun with my new garden, and that will continue through the fall, but my thoughts are finally turning toward [...]
Well, it has been awhile, but I am finally getting dug out of most of the boxes and have a good portion of the improvements made. We still need to paint, carpeting has been put on the back burner.
However, we Did install some of those solar tubes (a really cool kind of skylight that can [...]
Well, we are now in our new home, which had also belonged to a gardener before us. The garden was one of the things that attracted me to this house in the first place. It is now near the beginning of March and already I have some spring flowers blooming…snowdrops, crocuses and some [...]
After a crazy two weeks of getting the movers to get our stuff, waiting for the sale to close on our new home, getting moved in and having to go back to work in another state to train my work replacement, I am Finally moved in and settling down a bit. We have workmen [...]
We are on the home stretch with our move and I am still gardening away. This last weekend, I decided that the landscape job still needed some cleanup, so I went out hosed down the muddy pathways, and the rocks in the culvert and moved some of the rocks. There were also a [...]
Well, this is it! My house, we think, has sold. The buyer is sticking. We are a week away from closing. I have boxes stacked 3-4 high in all parts of the house (and the packers haven’t even gotten here yet.) The landscaper has completed his job, And cleaned up! [...]
New on the homefront. The sale of my house seems to be sticking – the buyer signed off on the last contingency the other day. AND The landscaper finally finished putting in the new sod. The results are terrific. (Yes, they Can lay sod in my Zone 8 location in [...]
If you have been reading this blog, you know about my home sale saga and the fiasco with having a landscaper modify a few things in my yard. Nevertheless, there are some other things going on in my garden which at least bring some bright spots in the middle of such craziness.
I love my [...]
I am still holding my breath, but so far, the buyer seems to be sticking. We have had the home inspection with what looks like fairly normal repairs needed. We Finally told the landscaper to finish his job, and that is coming along. We finally stopped making the house look like “Home [...]
Is it possible I have sold my home?? We have been negotiating with a very difficult buyer for the past week, and today finally signed an agreement. In two days we have the inspection. They had essentially asked us to delay the landscape work we were in the progress of having done so [...]
