Category: Home and Garden


Burn pile

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May 6, 2012

Over the past year my hubby has been piling up a lot of things in the back yard, into what he likes to call “the burn pile.” The pile was very close to the woods, and I was very nervous that when he did actually burn it that it would spread to the woods and engulf the entire neighborhood. My hubby always “pooh-poohed” my concerns, telling me that he has been managing burn piles for many years over his lifetime and that there was nothing to worry about.

Well, it rained all day yesterday, and most of the day today, and I was quite surprised when I heard the tractor running in the back yard. I looked out of the kitchen window and saw that the burn pile was burning and my hubby was using his tractor to keep a fire line of fresh dirt between it and anything that wasn’t supposed to burn. I have to admit that I was rather impressed that he did manage to keep the fire in control, but I’ll never tell HIM that!

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Beautiful rain chains

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April 24, 2012

Over the past couple of years I have been noticing that our gutters and down spouts are deteriorating. I’ve been looking at decorating magazines and seen some articles and photographs of something called rain chains that I think I’d like to consider buying and using when my hubby finally declares that it is time to replace the down spouts.

Nobody that I know has ever told me that they have any experience with chains rain, so I’m a little bit anxious about trying something that nobody else that I know has used. Funny how I depend so much on the experiences of my friends and family!

I’ve fallen in love with the beauty of a copper rain chain that looks like lotus flowers, and I’ve bookmarked the website for future reference. My biggest worry right now about copper rain chains is whether or not some one would be bold enough to come up to the house and steal them just for the melt down value of the copper. Maybe I should consider aluminum instead, but I DO love the warm look of copper!

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Old photographs

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April 21, 2012

After dinner last night my sister brought out a large cardboard box full of pictures taken back in the ’60s. It was so much fun looking at how skinny and awkward we looked back then! Most of the pictures that were taken as group family photos had at least one of the kids pouting. That must have been very frustrating to our parents, trying to get a good group shot and there was always someone throwing a clog in the gears!

Some of the photos were of us kids inside the old log cabin that we used to spend our summers in. One of the things that I loved about that cabin was the feeling that you got when you were inside – it really felt like it was an authentic old log cabin. There were only three rooms – a small galley style kitchen, a small bathroom with a shower (no tub) and a large multi-function room. We used that large room to eat, play, and sleep. It was furnished with rustic log furniture that looked like Adirondack chairs made with whole logs. I was really quite sad when my parents sold that cabin; I loved that place.

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Fire pits and old fashioned fun

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April 19, 2012

Seems as if fire pits are all the rage lately. My sister was telling me that she was looking at some patio fire pits at FirePits.com to get some ideas about decorating her little garden oasis in the back yard.

I think that the fire pits are cute, and when I think of the memories of my own childhood of roasting marshmallows around a camp fire, I think about how cool it would be to have a fire pit to roast marshmallows on again. But then reality hits me and I realize that as awesome as it would look, my “real” family would probably never use it; my “real” family is a bunch of technogeeks that don’t like going outside for any reason at all. I love my family, truly I do, but I sometimes wish that we could have some “old fashioned” family fun together.

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Lawn signs

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April 17, 2012

Driving down to the end of the cul-de-sac I discovered that two of our neighbors had “for sale” lawn signs on their property down by the road. I was surprised to see that the neighbor whose dog attacked our dog was selling her house. I wished that we had enough money to buy the house and let my mother live there – it is a beautiful location, with a beautiful little pond on the property, and it would be nice to have my mother so close by, especially since she is in her golden years.

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