Along with venerating good Queen Victoria last holiday weekend, we had company for two nights – barbecued, bonfired and drank pink wine – and also carried on with our list of things to accomplish before our first renters of the season arrive next month. Chief among these is yard clean up.
As a team, we wrestled most of [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Wood Stacking, Debris Packing and Garden Whacking
Posted in Sunshine Coast B.C., cottage, garden, gardening, tagged cottage garden, cottage life, garden, gardening, keat, Keats View Cottage, Sunshine Coast B.C. on May 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Fabulous New Retaining Wall!
Posted in Sunshine Coast B.C., cottage, garden, gardening, landscaping, renovation on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When the tree fallers carted away all of that debris from our driveway recently, the center portion of the retaining wall in the driveway collapsed and was carted away as well. We quite literally pulled the remaining wall down with our hands, and then set to work making a new one.
Cottager and I went over [...]
Fun With Found Things
Posted in Sunshine Coast B.C., cottage, frugal tips, garden, gardening, making do, planters, tagged container gardening, found things, frugal tips, money plant, Sunshine Coast B.C. on May 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My pal AJ came over for a visit on Friday evening and we had a fun 24 hours.
On Saturday morning we tackled a strawberry planter that Little Urchin recently found amongst the treasures put out for Spring Clean-Up garbage collection in our neighbourhood.
One lip had been broken off and threatened to disgorge dirt everywhere – [...]
