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Out behind the fence...

Category: Daily notes | Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:09 am

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OK, these pics were taken the end of Sep and early Oct. Some other stuff I found out behind the fence. Hopefully in the spring I'll have more, you all built up my hopes that some of the wild flowers need some time...but in the mean time I guess I ended up doing ok considering I just litterly threw the seeds out and paid absolutely NO attention to them.

Enjoy!









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A little fall color...better late then never...right?

Category: Daily notes | Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:14 pm

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Some trees around my yard and neighborhood.






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Some flowers that got missed while I was off line...

Category: Daily notes | Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:12 pm

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Here is some of the stuff that bloomed while I was so busy in Aug/Sep. I did manage to get a few shots and now I want to share them.

My morning glories did finally bloomed, these were taken in Sep.



My coreopsis did well. This was taken in Oct.



These sun flowers were a surprize. They grew up under my bird feeders. I've always had grass there but this year I took the grass out as this is where the new garden space is going to be. I guess they liked the dirt! These were taken in Oct.




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Hey y'all, I've missed you! An update on the new garden.

Category: Daily notes | Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:30 am

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What a busy summer and fall. Man, I thought when I'd gotten a chance to get back on in Aug. I'd be here right on through but alas life keeps happening.

My DD#1 (who's 22) got engaged in Aug. and we've been pretty busy making plans and shopping for wedding gowns as well as flower girl gowns for DD#2 (who's 5).

DD#1 is making most of the plans but she's had me right along side of her to make sure she's making good decisions and offering my 2 cents where I can.

DD#2 will be the flower girl. She has her own oppinion of what her dress will be. Good thing for her, DD#1 knows her sister well and has no problem letting a 5 year old call her own shots.

We had DD#2's birthday party the beginning of Oct. 15 5 years old kids running around my back yard. We got tables and chairs, no room in my house, thank goodness it was a lovely day. A little chilly, it is fall in Maine, but it was really nice.

We also got a big bouncing castle for them to get all their energy and cake out of their systems. All in all, they had a blast and it was a fun day for the kids.

I spent most of the day battling a migraine and was pretty much dibilitaded by the time everyone left, but was able to get to bed early and sleep it off most of the next day.

I'm sorry to say the new garden area is not making much progress. We've pretty much set it aside for now, making Spring the focus of trying to start working on it again. This is where we are at, more than the last pics posted but we've got a long way to go.






Well, it's going to take me forever to get caught up on all I've missed. I needed to jump in a say hi and that I'm still around. I'm hoping to find some time here and there to get back into the swing of stewing.

I hope you all have been well.



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The new garden space...started

Category: Daily notes | Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:37 pm

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Well I'm so happy because I figured we wouldn't start this until next spring and now I should be able to do some planting next spring and maybe this fall...

Here's some of the new garden space. It's very slow going as my DH works all week and then his second job on weekends. We get a half day here and a full day there but not really enough time to make a huge difference. It's coming along and I'm hopefull we'll be able to move my hydrangea this fall. That is the goal anyway...

This is the yard before, don't look to hard at the grass. It never really came back from all the work we did last year putting in the jungle gym/swing set for DD#2.


We have removed the grass for the area that will be garden and started the wall around the tree. The whole garden will be walled off so you will have to step up to get into it.





This is the block we are using.


The delivery of the rest of the block.


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We went on a whale watch on July 19th

Category: Daily notes | Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:13 pm

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My DD#1 (she's 22) works for a company who planned a whale watch for their employees and families. So DD#2 (she is 4) and I went with her and her BF (DH get's motion sickness so decided to stay home) and we had a blast. It was kind of cool being way out on the ocean and seeing these massive creatures. The pics really don't do them justice but I picked a few of my favorite to share with you. Enjoy!







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Remember behind the fence?

Category: Daily notes | Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:06 pm

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My original blog post of "May 16th notes" showed you behind the fence in our back yard. It looked something like this...



We'll I didn't get the results I wanted from all those wild flower seeds, there were millions and this is all I've got, so far anyway...



Can't see much from afar but these are the flowers that actually came up. You can't really tell they are there from the above pic...








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My garden (from a distance view)

Category: Daily notes | Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:06 am

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I thought I'd post pics of my garden looking at it from the yard. You always get to see the close ups of just the plants/flowers, but I've never posted from a 'view' perspective before. So here they are:

The West side of my house, which is the front.


from another angle.


The South side, which is the side.


The East side, which is the back.


from another angle.


The North side is just drive way and garage so I didn't bother posting that. No plants there yet, sometimes I put a planter next to the garage, but if I'm lazy I may not bother this year.

I'll try to remember to post more shots once the flowers start blooming.

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Progress on my seedlings

Category: Daily notes | Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:44 am

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I wanted to post these the other day, but things have been so busy...it's crazy. Anyway, now I've caught my breath once again and would like to share.

These are the trays when I first filled them. There's Portaluca (which didn't make it), Impatiens, mixed Petunias along with some pink, lilac and silver ones, Coreopsis and Marigolds. All started on April 24th.


The same trays on May 13th.



And now I've moved them to cups, on May 27th.






I've lost quite a few, but am still happy with what's here. It's looking as though I may loose some more, it's still ok, it's only my 2nd year with seeds and I'm hoping next year will be even better. It's just starting to get warm now so I'm hoping to have them off my dining room table and out on the porch in the next few weeks or so. Wish me luck!


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May 21st notes

Category: Daily notes | Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:04 am

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My DH and I took yesterday as a 'fun' day. We took DD#2 to preschool and took off with our cameras. We really didn't end up doing much but we stopped by the Cape Porpoise Pier (ME), and took some pics of the lobster boats.






I love the water and lobtering is a very big part of this part of ME. It didn't smell particularly good there (they were working and cleaning fish and such), but we got some pics and were on our way.

It was a 'fun' day and that's what really counts.

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