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We worked our tails off this past weekend. My husband watched more YouTube videos and found a better mix for the mortar that is “stickier” for adhering the stone veneer to the wall. He also got a different cutter which is much faster and way more accurate. So, we actually made quite a bit ofContinue reading “Progress on the stone veneer”

I posted photos on 3/31/23 of the “haircuts” that I gave my forsythia bushes. They have recovered amazingly well. They did exactly what I hoped that they would do and put out a bunch of new branches. It’s hard to believe that we planted these only a couple years ago. They are working extremely wellContinue reading “Forsythia Recovery”

I get a bouquet of flowers every week from my subscription and I LOVE it. This week was more ranunculus, snapdragon, nigella, larkspur, pink astilbe, Bells of Ireland, and what I thought was Gaura, but is actually Saponaria. I added boxwood, lenten rose, white astilbe, oak leaf hydrangea and some dahlias. Then I tucked inContinue reading “Subscription Flowers Plus”

We have a specific look in mind for our basement–a 1930’s English pub–and we’ve been on the hunt for era appropriate items that you might have seen in a pub at that point in time. I was hunting around for a trough sink and went down the rabbit hole of Etsy (did you know theyContinue reading “The Ancient Basement–Gathering Materials”

I have a TON of arugula right now because it was starting to bolt so I had to pick it all. I have given some away, but still have a LOT. I also had some asparagus left over from Mother’s Day, so here’s what I did. I sliced an onion into about 1/8″ thick slicesContinue reading “Steak, Arugula, and Asparagus Salad”

There is a recipe in the May issue of Southern Living for a Strawberry Shrub that you use to make a strawberry spritz and that sounded interesting, and I happen to have A LOT of strawberries that I need to do something with. Strawberry Shrub 1 quart strawberries, hulled and sliced 1 1/2 cups sugarContinue reading “Strawberry Elderflower Spritz”

I think that I have mentioned that I got a flower subscription for this whole year as a Christmas gift from my husband–a bouquet every week for the spring and summer and into early fall. My flower lady (sweetsouthflowers on IG) drops them off at a local smoothie place around lunchtime each Friday and IContinue reading “Mother’s Day Bouquet”

I went to Benton’s Hams this week to get some bacon and smoked sausage and noticed a bin of ham bones under one of their work tables. I asked if they sold them and the man told me that they give them away. I asked for 3 of them. When I got home, I putContinue reading “Ham Broth”

We have been slowly chipping away at the projects in the basement. I thought when my husband took a week and a half off of work that we would make a lot of progress, but he ended up spending that time cutting wood for the beams, molding, and furring strips for the basement ceiling andContinue reading “The Ancient Basement–Update”

My husband has an interesting sense of style. Most of the time we agree on things, but there are a couple of notable exceptions. His lamp is one of those. His brother is a priest and my husband visited him while he was at the seminary in Indiana. The seminary has what my husband describesContinue reading “The Lamp”