Golden.

We have the most wonderful old pair of honey locusts on either side of our driveway that make a lovely, amazing canopy near our house. The people who planted them are my most favorite Previous Owners.

They are currently raining yellow confetti and making a layer of gold all around the house. I tried to take a photo of the leaves as they were falling to share with you, but there are some things that are too magical to be captured on film.

Instead, please enjoy the leaves that have already landed.

Stackin some wood.

Before:

After:

There is still gobs of wood to stack, but this is not a bad thing.

The Bird House

I suppose this is what we get for naming our house after a bird...first the Screech owls in the porch and now a dove on our bedroom window sill:


She is driving the cats bonkers. They take turns pressing their little noses against the window and staring at her with malicious, but completely futile intent.


Some random photos of neat old things in our house. The front door knob:


Lamps (?) at the front door:



A CFL upgrade for outside lights:


And the adorable mutt being...adorable:

Roofs, radishes and respect

I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get a third "r" word in the title so I could be all dorky, but I think it will work...

Roofs! Our new one is still being worked on. We've got the new shingles and some gutters on the back. The metal family (the head guy, his 19 year old son and son-in-law) are finishing up the copper. Shiny.


Radishes are poking up.


The respect comes from the new 11'+ barn door we built and installed. It's a big advertisement to the neighborhood that we aren't just wimpy hippies from the east coast. We could tell it was causing a stir when folks started slowing down to take a peak as they drove by, and our neighbor stopped over to say he was "impressed." Had he seen us wrestling to install it for a day and a half, taking really stupid risks with our fingers, he might not have the same opinion.


The garden to the right is for potatoes, and root veggies have been planted on the left, including the radishes and 3 colors of carrots! Who knew there were such things??

Oh! And some running, to close the post:

New Roof Preview

We've been waiting for 3 days in a row that are above freezing and dry so we could get our roof replaced. Our roofers seem to think those days are soon! We had materials delivered today.

Here is the current roof in it's hideous glory. Please note the ghetto-fabulous flashing.

Also, something appears to be growing...