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

 

 









 

 



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