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Holiday Decorations, Part 2
When I saw this light-up penguin, I knew we had to have it: (Loki was a bit freaked out when he first saw it.) I wish I could say I was really cool and made it myself, but no, it was just a...
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Backyard Light
just a quick one… here was our corroded, worn-looking, non-functional backyard light: (Poor sad useless light...) So we switched it out with a functional and somewhat nicer looking light: (We pointed...
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A few house presents
My sister Sharon got into the housewarming spirit with my xmas presents… First we have the “I’d never buy it for myself, but it’s totally cute” lawn gnome: (I can't decide if the anime eyes are creepy...
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Pollarding
We did it, we finally tackled the mulberry tree. Or rather, we finally got around to hiring someone to tackle it. The tree guys came out, took a look, and decided it was way overgrown and our best bet...
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Solar, solar, solar!
We had been making plans to install solar panels before we even moved into this house. Dave works for a solar company, and it’s something that we both think makes a lot of sense, so this was one of...
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Gardening Adventures
I finally worked up my courage and decided to attempt a vegetable garden. I decided that a raised bed in the “square foot garden” style was probably my safest bet, so we bought some boards and built a...
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Finally, a Clothesline
This was one of those many, many things that I was excited about right when we first moved in, but then I pushed it way down the priority list. Eventually I found one of those square clotheslines with...
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Halloween Decorations
This post is a little late, but you know, that’s me. We managed to start decorating a little earlier this year than last year, and we managed to add a few more decorations this year. Mostly we decided...
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Outdoor Chores
It’s warmed up a bit here in the bay area, so I’ve been trying to salvage some of the horrible mess that is our outdoor space. First up, some looongggg overdue love for our little orange tree. It...
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Saving the Yard
Both our front yard and back yard held up fairly well through our first summer, but last summer both of them were looking pretty miserable by the end. The grass was pretty prickly and had given up...
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Poor Neglected Front Yard
So, in positive news I’ve figured out how to run the in-ground sprinklers manually. Last spring, half of the front sprinklers stopped working on the timer, but I didn’t realize it because we hadn’t...
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Another attempt at gardening
My first attempt at growing herbs in little pots two years ago bombed… because I didn’t water them enough. Now that I’m home full time though I figure I can probably keep up with the little daily...
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Finally fixed the water main leak
If you’ve been following along, you may recall that we’ve had an extra green swampy patch of grass in our front yard for a while now. We checked to make sure that it wasn’t a leak in the irrigation...
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Swing Set: Fix it or trash it?
When we bought this house, one of the selling points was a “play structure”. Turns out it was faded and rusty, and I declared that we would trash it ASAP. But we had plenty of yard space and it sat...
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Just Some Flower Pots
The front door/patio is still pretty boring at the moment, and I wanted to bring in some flower pots to sit on either side of the front stoop. There isn’t a whole lot of space between the step and the...
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Front Yard Landscaping Options
Our front yard is mostly grass. Here’s a reminder: That’s from a few months ago. It’s a little more uniformly green now, but otherwise it’s pretty much unchanged. It’s a pretty small yard though, so...
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Antenna Action
We don’t have any sort of cable or satellite TV subscription, as we’ve decided we much prefer streaming stuff on Hulu (or marathoning an entire season on Netflix) rather than trying to watch our...
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Yard Work To-Dos
I didn’t really have anything I wanted to blog about, so I decided to walk around the back yard and take pictures of all the stuff I have NOT been doing… See, I’ve managed to keep up with mowing the...
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Outdoor Chore Catchup
The weather has been just gorgeous for the past few weeks! Sorry everyone in the rest of the US. If it makes you feel better, sales tax here is 9%… Anyway, We’ve been spending as much time as we can...
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Goodbye, Mulberry
That’s right, we finally pulled the trigger on getting rid of the mulberry. We even spent the extra moola to get the stump ground down. As I’ve lamented many times here, the thing grows like a weed,...
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