Ready for Spring

Last year our garden was delayed for weeks because it wouldn’t stop raining. Determined to get ahead of the curve this year, we took advantage of a sunny Sunday to till our gardens and break up some of the clay. We also cleared out one of our compost bins and …

The Great Pizza Project

When good friends moved out of state, they offered us their pizza oven. We said yes immediately despite it being large, heavy, …

Easy Ambiance

At one point Jonathan mounted wine bottles along the patio fence with fuel and wicks. They looked great lit but really took …

Rose Management

We’ve learned from experience that it’s never too early to prepare for a rose.

Daily Snaps

Decorating the tree today and thinking how nice it is to have an ornament that reminds me of home.

Handcrafted Heaven

A few years back a friend of ours who makes craftsman furniture offered us a chair that no longer fit in their …

Tenth Fourth

Good grief, look at this tree! We use our annual Fourth of July photo to track progress on our house but this …