haphazard musings and creations

my karl rosenfield peonies!!  about quadruple the size this year, and such a gorgeous color!  i brought a couple indoors and aside from sm...

...is unfortunately over now.  i took these pics last week, and ate a ridiculous amount of berries. 

if you ignore that little strip of blue in the dormer and the sad sack shutters i still have yet to remove... my house looks pretty damn c...

rhodeys in the kitchen

some kind of flowering bush in my front yard - slightly washed out by the bright sun, repigmented in picasa [aka photoshopped]

half of this bed has been planted for about a week and half..  i was a bit behind on cool-weather planting, but whatever.  stuffs growing....

the living room wall is slowly being populated with swanky mirrors - salvation army purchase, home depot purchase,  hand-me-down from gram...

but soft!  what light through yonder window breaks!  tis no wait.  that's just the garage light going on again. 

sleepy bees on my flowers

wagon wheel pasta stuck together in the colander.  because i'm a child and i eat white pasta with butter and cheese.

in case you were wondering, though it took me the entire summer, i did finally find the matching color spray paint to finish my pair of adir...

after years of storing my nail polish in bins where i couldnt find any particular color on the first try, i gave in and bought a nail poli...

yep you read those dates right.  over a month ago.  since then, my tomatoes have grown so tall they toppled over, the zucchini was transpl...

nothing says "i'm an adult" like fruity beer and salad that was supposed to be guacamole until i realized i didnt have any c...

ive successfully grown baby broccolis!!!! 

my mums in not quite so many words, told me i need to get the damn rhododendrons under control.  so i did.  finally.  i braved the rose th...

i bought a composter!  i call it a rotating thinger.. but apparently its a " tumbling 2 chamber composter ".  eeeh.

weeeell maybe an exaggeration.  but the garden is growing!  amazingly enough since weve had one of the coldest springs in awhile, with inter...

when they named rainbow chard "neon lights"... they werent kidding.  bright like the 90s.  but less trashy.  my cherry tomatoes ...

the lilacs bloomed!  and i do mean past tense.. since it rained for a week and theyre all gone now.  but they were gorgeous for that few d...