Shut your eyes…deep, deep breaths…and relax!
You are thinking happy thoughts, thoughts from your childhood, thoughts that do not involve the remodeling of the Patch, nail guns or the continuing prevalence of spray painted succulents in large box stores.
Your mind is set free, free from the burden of backyard refrigerator focal points.
(Okay not quite)
Free from the billowing of plastic draped walls,
and the 7 month rustle of a Tyvek bathroom doorway.
Your breathing is getting heavier and your eyes are beginning to close, first the left then the right, you are falling into a deep, deep sleep.
In this sleep the things that annoy you fall away.
You are no longer concerned or disturbed at just how many stickers can a pair of slippers pick up while taking the short walk to take out the trash.
Or why there is a huge festering slab of fungi growing at the base of one of your knockout roses or why an even stranger stand of Chocolate tube slime mold (hairy stemonitos) has taken up residence on an outdoor table leg.
Brrr.
Even the disturbing amount of weeds are no longer your concern.
Oh, who am I kidding?
Look at this mess!
Chocolate tube slime mold?
Seriously?
3-2-1…You are awake, feeling totally anxious and overwhelmed.
(That’s more like it!)
Yes, this is what 7 months of complete neglect looks like. I think it looks worse than what it is, at least that is what I keep telling myself.
Loki is having a great time exploring her new weedy paradise.
Cat in the Canna.
Her first venture outside…on a leash!
There has been so much going on inside our house with our remodel I have hardly ventured outside…not to water, not to feed and certainly not to weed. Oh and don’t get me started on how bad the mosquitoes are this year.
I don’t even consider venturing out onto the front porch at this point without first taking some rudimentary precautions.
The new den, all finished!
Remodeled bathroom…got to take that sticker off the window.
Our old living room has now become our dining room.
It fits well with our distressed new ship-lapped walls.
Back outside the Patch the Gulf Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
are in full swing,
one of my favorite native grasses.
This and Lindheimer Muhly…I cant decide.
Mist flowers are also entering their prime,
bringing with them clouds of American Snout butterflies.
Libytheana carinenta
We have a bumper crop of Celosia this year.
Oh and one scary clown.
Stay Tuned For:
“Hairy Roger”
.
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Your place is really coming along, Philip. The new rooms look beautiful! I have no doubt the exterior will back to its high standards of Patch-ness by spring as well. I look forward to seeing what you do with the design there too.
Thanks Pam and I hope you are right on the exterior! The kids are really enjoying having their own space – the downside is they now disappear into their respective rooms, never to be seen again…at least until some food is on the table.
There is a lot of work to be done out the back, and the front come to think of it to get things ship-shape. :-)
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