Remember The Great Coat Closet Remodel Project? Yes, that’s right, the one that I started nearly two years ago. Well, today I finished hanging the drywall. Big woop, you might say. Well, it IS a big woop. Hanging drywall in our house is a freaking […]

Summer is in full force here in the sunny South, with the heat and humidity both turned up to 11. We are still a month or so away from the “dog days” of summer, those dry, brown, heat-baked days when the only sound is the […]

It’s time for yet another installment of Building a Rose Garden! {cheers, applause} Wednesday was the most gorgeous day I have seen in a long time. It was warm, but not too warm, and breezy, with expansive blue skies dotted by white puffy clouds, like […]

The rose garden to the right of the walkway is complete and ready for planting! On the first day of my vacation, I finished the edger on this side of the garden and planted my bare-root roses from David Austin. Actually, I replanted them. I […]

After an entire weekend of steady work in uncertain weather, my new garden bed is ready for planting. The wall itself is not complete, but the sloped area is now level enough that I can proceed with planting. We filled the bed with a mix […]

Saturday, the rain held off long enough for me to make substantial progress on the new rose garden. My roses arrived this week, and are in need of a permanent home, so time is starting to be of the essence. I have potted the own-root […]