I did eventually finish washing the windows in the bed and breakfast. Must have been sometime in June. We got our second bag of ferns from the Soil and Water Conservation District at about that time and planted them in the shrub garden along Bradley Street and under the huge hemlock in the southeast corner [...]
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A Year with the Plants
Posted in gardening, maintenance, Uncategorized, yardwork on December 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cleaning the Windows
Posted in maintenance, yardwork, tagged maintenance, spring, windows on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have been intimidated by the number of windows in this house ever since we bought it. There are 35 altogether. The windows are “6 over 6″ throughout and all but two have storm windows. The ones without storms are modern all weather windows and the smallest in the whole house. The west side of [...]
Spring Tree Clean-up
Posted in gardening, yardwork on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We didn’t have a lot of snow this winter, but we had snow often and it was bone-chillingly cold for weeks in a row. Changes in the weather were often accompanied by howling winds. The white pines and Norway spruce on the north side of the house took a beating this year; there were limbs [...]
