Fall Foliage

It's that time of year already, time to winterize the home, deck, and garden. I was working in the yard the other day, and I was feeling a little gloomy that this day had already come. We were preparing for our first winter storm which was to hit the next morning. When I looked around at the big picture everything was dead, the sun wasn't shining, no flowers were blooming. But still, I decided I would grab the camera, surely there was something I could take a picture of today... What I found was a whole lot more than I expected... so many little things that were beyond beautiful that day.

From Fall Foliage

From Fall Foliage

From Fall Foliage

From Fall Foliage

From Fall Foliage

From Fall Foliage

From Fall Foliage

From Fall Foliage

I was surprised to see this Iris thinking about blooming, not sure if she's late or early, but I like it! So now it's time to say goodbye to the pretty fall foliage and hello to (hopefully) a long snowy winter... Can't wait to see it all come back, bigger and better after a long winter's nap.

Eye Candy

I have loved watching my yard come back to life over the summer. I've been taking lots of pictures along the way. What's the point of taking them if not to share them?

Enjoy...

Here we go again!

In case anyone cares what we are up to... well, for the last few weeks and I am sure for the next month at least, we will be working on our yard.  

Holy Cow, what have we gotten ourselves into?  Our neighbors all think we are crazy, I can't say I disagree!  We have taken it back to the bare bones.  Only this time we will do it right and this will be the LAST time we EVER reconstruct and totally re landscape our yard.  I just want to be a normal person who sits on the deck in the morning with my coffee and watches the kids play in the grass while I go and pull a few weeds from my flower beds.  But today I am getting my coffee down so I can go out and move rocks to make borders and dig trenches for sprinklers.  Hopefully, I will get around to replanting some of my flowers that I had to dig up and are now in buckets all over my front porch.  I'm sure in the mean time my kids will be making mud rivers and tracking it all through my house! 

 Don't get me wrong, I love the good hard work and the reward that will someday come from it.  But for now, I sort of wish I was Hermione and I could just wave my wand and be done!

A picture says a thousand words...

I guess it's a good thing I've been taking lots of pictures because I seem to be coming up short in the words department. Sorry, I've been a little MIA around here.

I've said it before and I am going to say it again, I am so in love with my little old house! I love to wake up in the morning to a bedroom that was built from scratch by Greg and his Dad. Someday I will get around to posting the before and afters, it is pretty amazing the way they transformed this old house. The before pictures are completely unrecognizable. It's hard for me to even take my mind back there.

I feel refreshed and my cluttered mind feels all cleared out. Rockport started to wear on us pretty hard over the last 6 months we were there. Since the move, I can't shake this feeling like I have forgotten something really huge that is going on in my life. So I go back over my list, and my calendar and I feel a huge wave of relief as I realize again, I haven't forgotten anything. All of the things I have going on in my life are the same, they just weigh a whole lot less on my shoulders now.

The photo ops seem a lot less frequent since we've been back, but that's okay, I'm game for a challenge. It gives me a reason to get a little bit more creative. Here are a few from the days of our life since we've been back.

Roscoe and Nikita all snuggled up. My puppies are so pretty.




Cam and Hong Kong Fooey are never too far apart.



Roscoe went and got himself sprayed by a skunk the day before we moved. He has since had a series of tomato juice baths. We are pretty sure he got a direct hit to the face because his nose still smells like skunk!


Yesterday the four of us packed up a little lunch and headed to Liberty Park for the afternoon. I doubt most of you would disagree that this is the ugliest time of year here. The trees are bare, there is no snow left on the ground, it's not super cold, but it's not quite warm yet either. Yesterday was not your ideal day for taking photos, the sun never really came out, it spent the day glowing dimly behind a light grey sky, but Liberty Park proved to be a very photogenic place despite the weather! I've never really stopped to think how old that park is and I've never stopped to look at how huge the trees are. What a beautiful and historic place. Greg and I took turns with the camera. Here are a few of our favorites...

Home SWEET Home

Well, here we are, home at last...

Casa Luna Brilla... Home of Moonshine

We made the majority of the move on Saturday. It was a looooong, haaaard process. Because we lived a mile up a steep and snowy hill we couldn't take the U haul all the way to our house. We had to park it at the bottom of the hill and take loads in the trucks from our house down to the bottom. This meant instead of just loading and unloading once, we had to load, unload~load, unload~ load, unload~ load, and finally UNLOAD... without the help of Rob and Jack, Greg and I would have never gotten it done! Those guys worked their butts off and by the end of the day they could barely walk. So if they are reading this, I just want to say once again Thank you so, so, SO much for your help!

Now that we are here it just feels so right. I love this old house! When Greg and I bought this place it looked nothing like it does now. Greg and his Dad, Jack gutted it down to the bare bones and we made it just the way we wanted it. The house we lived in at Rockport was remodeled before we moved in, so we didn't HAVE to do any work to it, but it was not "us." As much as we did love where we lived, it never felt like "home." None of our furniture or things looked right there, it just didn't flow. It would have cost us a fortune to make things there the way we wanted them. Here, it's already mostly done. So it feels really good to pull all of my things out of boxes and they look right, everything flows together again. I'm a flowy kind of girl so this has me feelin' real good~

I love that I woke up this morning to it snowing outside and I can enjoy it again! No need to stress about whether I will get stuck if I go anywhere, I know I can leave if I have to. I am also a snowy kind of girl so this has me feelin' good too~ Zach and I took some pics of us on the computer this morning and since no post is complete without a few pictures... here they are...

I still have a lot of work to do, so it's time for me to get back to it!!!