I actually loved working outside yesterday.  It wasn’t hot, it wasn’t cold, it was just the right temperature for working.  We were given an extra week or two of gorgeous weather to do things we thought would have to wait until next spring.  But all good things end.  It’s raining today.
My husband and I spent […]

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The automatic driplines I installed for all my hanging baskets and patio pots worked so well! Everything thrived, even while on vacation. But now I have to winterize them because we live in an area where winter is very harsh and very cold.
The directions said I could leave them out as long as […]

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Through sweat and sunburn I finished the work on my gate. Wasn’t it hot this week?! I think they said it was 20 degrees above normal for a fall day.
I sanded off the stenciling of the backside of the gate and maybe I’ll redo […]

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We spent Friday through Sunday near Woodstock, IL. (We came for a friend’s birthday party in Crystal Lake, IL.) I love the town square where the movie Groundhog Day was filmed. Woodstock stood in as Punxsutawny, PA. The opera tower where Bill Murry’s character, Phil Conners, jumps off of is right on […]

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