Today is closing day for the buyer of the former Tangly Cottage. (The business name moves with us, but I will probably think of that house as Tangly until the new residents give it a name of their own!) Any minute now the papers will be filed at the courthouse up in South Bend and [...]
Archive for February, 2011
a contented goodbye to the old garden
Posted in journal, our garden, plants, private gardens, tagged gardening, Ilwaco, Long Beach Peninsula, snow on February 28, 2011 | 7 Comments »
vignettes, new garden, February
Posted in journal, our garden, plants, private gardens, tagged deer, gardening, hardscaping, Ilwaco, Long Beach Peninsula, nurseries on February 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Here is a slideshow of the new garden. On Oct 20th when we took possession ’twas nothing but grass with not a decorative rock, plant, or gewgaw in sight. My goal: to accomplish as much in three months of winter as I did in three years at my other garden. It will be a several [...]
gravel, part two (edges)
Posted in hardscaping, our garden, private gardens, tagged gardening, hardscaping, Ilwaco, Long Beach Peninsula on February 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We continued to postpone the end of staycation while finishing the hardscaping with that eleven yards of gravel. First, we got that work area on the east side of the house graveled and rolled for a tideir place to store work related objects. You can see that I had made yet another small garden bed [...]
gravel, part one
Posted in hardscaping, journal, nurseries, our garden, plants, tagged gardening, hardscaping, Ilwaco, Long Beach Peninsula, nurseries, plants on February 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
After having completed the three big garden beds in the back yard, I had a moment of thinking I was done with my winter project, until, as I mentioned last time, I looked to the left and realized that unless I made a patio (which had indeed been in my LONGTERM plan) I would be [...]
quick garden creation, part two: the back garden
Posted in history, journal, our garden, private gardens, tagged gardening, Ilwaco, lasagna gardening, Long Beach Peninsula, newspaper beds on February 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Some friends have expressed amazement at how quickly we got the house decorated and the gardens created. Remember, we took a total of 12 weeks off paid work to accomplish this, and in fact I tore myself away from the garden only because I started to feel a bit skint…and needed income to buy more [...]
quick garden creation, part one: front garden
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
With a thrilling new and empty lot (well, it did have a house and shed on it) to fill and a sense that time was not on my side, I scheduled one week off in November to make the front garden, followed by a two month long staycation in December and January to create the [...]
why we moved
Posted in history, journal, our garden, private gardens, tagged gardening, Ilwaco, Long Beach Peninsula on February 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
First: breaking news: The old house and garden has been sold and within a month will belong to a wonderful new owner! Now, as promised, on to the story of our new home and garden. In midsummer of 2010, I rather suddenly decided that my ultimate dream would be to live closer to the marina [...]
