Rug Addiction, Door Decor, Flowers, Waffles, Me and the Open Air, Projects

I have just come in from 

my 30 plus min. work in the yard.

It's hot but not like it was

over the weekend. It was 85 when

I was out but the humidity is

lower than its been and there

is a breeze.

So, with all that said I was able

to extend my working outside

for more than 30 mins. 

I did not work out over

the weekend.

More on that later into

the post....why?

I need to go take some 

pics. 

HAHA

Anyway, before I went out 

I did coffee on the porch.

My neighbor corrected me the 

other day and said it is not 

a screened in deck, which it

is, it is considered a porch.

Well, okay then.

What takes it from a deck to

a porch?

Carrie said this when I asked her,

"a porch is covered with a rood, often walls

and a screen. Porches roofs are part of the house

roof. It provides shelter and entrance to the house.

a deck is unopened, usually around a 

pool in the backyard. No walls, 

no roof."

What do you think?

Yes, I have two walls on my 

PORCH, 

screened, a door, 

entrance to the house, roof is

tied in with the house.

Oh, so sorry, got side tracked!

Morning on the back porch, on 

the daybed and when I slide off

the bed, I almost stepped on this

addition to my rug!

I have had my J on the 

front door for months.

Used to I changed out 

according to holiday but 

I have been slacking on 

that really badly.

But looking at the door

I wanted something 

NEW, 

COLORFUL,

BRIGHT,

and 

FUN.

So yesterday evening, 

I got my craft on.

I love it.

I have the stuff to do another

one for Amber. Her's will 

have a dragonfly on it.

My sedum is so confused.

 

This is my 

Autumn Joy

FALL sedum. It is a 

rusty red sort of color.

It is not suppose to bloom

till 

FALL!

This is the only one I made

it to this house with.

I used to have the pink

sedum, Stonecrop sedum to 

be exact in Crystal Pink.

I really need to see about getting

some pink of it to replaces the 

one I left behind.

 

Speaking of plants, I am collecting

seeds already.

This would be my pink

coneflowers.

This one looks like it tried

to grow and bloom again.

I will dead head my 

blooms and let them dry out,

then I put them in 

sandwich bags marked with

what they are on them and 

BAM, 

I will be ready for spring.

Ready for spring, I just wished

this would get ready for summer.

This is my Cypress Vine, 

AKA Hummingbird vine and 

by now, it should be blooming.

These were also planted the 

day after tax day. The growth on 

these are usually an inch a day.

What the hell happened here?

I know that I usually buy and plant

with reg top soil from the hardware

store but this I got this yr. just

don't seem to have what it 

usually had in it. I had some 

that grew tons of mushrooms,

but this has just sat there, growing slowly.

 Next yr I 

will go for the cost of something

better. 

The other evening I wanted

something sweet so I opened

a tube of cinnamon rolls only 

I did not cook in the oven,

cooked them on my waffle maker.

My son called, asked me what

I was doing, I told him I 

was making the waffles out

of cinnamon rolls.

For some reason, Cory that 

that was funny. 

He said, "Mom, you are 

F'ing (his favorite word)

strange."

The whole time laughing 

at me. I just told him 

thank you!

Brat.

When I started this post it was

around 11 am on Monday.

It is now 11:45 pm on 
Monday evening. 

I stopped to go out to

take pics of my projects to 

share and of course I did this

and that and I have been

all over the place.

Pic above was taken after I 

did some work this morning. 

The carport has been a problem.

The guys that put it up for the 

company that built it put it 

where I wanted it to go but I totally

did not consider that it would be 

on a slant. A slant right into 

the yard.

Please, excuse the mess. It takes

me a bit to get things done, 

and with that, things sort of 

get left out.

Anyway, the carport run off, 

pours right into the area at the 

end of the driveway.

To help with that I put the 

rocks I used in front 

of the porch last yr. in 

this area. Yes, I took that area

I made last yr up. It just was not 

working for me. Anyway, I reused the

rock. 

The rock area goes from one side

 of the driveway to the other, I was hoping

this would help hold some water coming

off the slanted carport back. It does except

on the downpour days.

The problem now is that the

water runs under the bigger border

rocks. To stop that I would need

to dig a trench and have the large

rocks part of the way into the ground.

This is the area that the water

runs to, between the deck steps

and the shed. Gets slick and I have

almost, but not yet, fallen.

I knew there has to be a fix.

The other day I shared the 

pathway to the shed with you. I 

still have a bit to do, which requires

a 30 min ride to Lowes. 

Prob do that on Tuesday.

But I started the pathway to help

with the slick part of almost

busting my read before I 

checked things out when it rained

and knew that I did not need

a pretty fancy band aid for the 

issue, I need a fix.

Part of the fix after the rocks in 

front of the driveway, I put in 

some steps coming from the 

driveway. I have one more

set of steps to add. 

The steps and the path are

going to meet right at those bricks

in the bottom right corner.

 The rest of the area in front

of the shed is going to have a fix

also. I am going to make a patio 

with 16x16 step stones. 

That leads right into another

question, step stones with gaps in 

between them and add more pebbles,

or....but the stones together for a clean look.

haha..

I told you that I checked out the 

area with the rain one day. Not only do I have

the issue of the slanted carport but also, coming

from the road on the other side of 

the driveway, merging in with the 

water from the carport and some going 

around the shed. My fix for that is

concrete blocks.

Gotta pick up five my blocks

and toppers to go on them, this 

will force the water coming from the 

road and around the shed.

Oh and crap, forgot to tell you that

the biggest fix is going to come 

together when I put gutters on 

the end of the carport. On each side, 

the gutters will go down into

water barrels and that is what I 

will water the yard with.

Okay, if I have not confused

you enough, let;s go back to the 

pathway.  

I am adding odds and ends, 

broken stones, stars I made and

a lock I had to have cut off the 

door to under the house and a 

metal thing I found in the 

yard.

But....look at these rocks.

 Just have to go and pick up 

more pebbles and the glue 

to hold it all down.

Thank you for following me around

and all over this post,

Pam