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 The Acacia podalyriifolia is really bursting with energy. I know silver and yellow can be a questionable combo, but I'm a fan -especially of the timing of it's blooming to life.   I've been busy with house stuff.  Signing all the paperwork for the kitchen reno & new carpet- decisions, decisions! It dawned on me that it would be a good time to paint the cupboards in the hallway (while the old carpet is still here and I can be sloppy)  the cabinets are still in decent shape just banged up.  Sanded, cleaned, and go. I love wood, I promise you I didn't want to paint - they look like crap in person.   Put them back up, added handles.  So what was a too dark hallway is now TOO bright. Ha ha, you can only laugh about this stuff, so I'll find a decent color and repaint the walls.  This tiny Eucalyptus (pleurocarpa?) I think - I'd have to check the tag to be sure.  Is doing great grounded in the slope, so soft. While I was with my daugh...

 The light hits so nicely in the afternoon, although I'm yearning for MORE daylight hours.  I need to get the chimney flues placed, I probably shouldn't plant in them until March just to be on the safe side.  Although it's been so mild, I likely would be fine. I feel like I've been in a frantic state of cleaning indoors and out.  The carpet measurer gentleman is here now.  It seems there is more to it than my tape measure methods, haha. Below is a 42" stock tank leftover from the duck days.  I've decided to move it, maybe use it for a cutting bed - haven't fully decided.  I removed the Banksia from the stock tank and put it into this empty spot.  Some partial shade in the summer, in my garden the Banksias like that.  As I got closer to the bottom of the tank, I was reminded I had filled it with a few plastic water bottles to eat up some of the space. All done, well not really.  Here are some longer shots, this pathway goes along the bott...

I recently had a friend text me that a dozen eggs at Kroger's in Portland were $11.49!  We had empty egg shelves during Christmas around here, but when they were back in stock (limit 2 dozen per customer) the price was in the $7-9 neighborhood.  I'm curious what everyone is paying for a dozen eggs, if you are an egg purchaser. I grabbed cage free Jumbo Lucerne because that is what our Safeway had - DOUBLE YOLKS!  I don't know why this is so exciting, and I did wonder about my cholesterol levels during the day. *It was a freakishly large egg -reminded me of our ducks eggs.   In spring of 2016, we ordered 6 baby ducks.  They arrived in a little peeping box via USPS.  We ordered our chicks the same way. The ducklings lived in the garage under a heat lamp until they were ready to live outside. James and I put together a large coop for them to live in.  It's crazy to look back at the garden and see it full of perennials- I do not recognize it! So brigh...

In my last post I talked of making changes to the front, and I did do some clean-up.  Somehow I found myself in the back again.  Our palms back there have grown so high they don't provide any relief from seeing the neighbor's roof of a ? I don't know what that is.  Luckily the slope provides some privacy. It drives me bonkers, thankfully they don't peer over the fence, haha.  In an effort to erase that roofline from my sight, I will plant some nice tall things on top of the palm roots.  The palms don't mind, so far anyway. I've added a few things up top this way, a Banksia and uh oh I think the Azara is dead.  It's really blending in nicely with the black fence. First I scouted the slope for rocks to build up a "planting nest".  Here is one hidden, serving no purpose!   Heavier than I imagined, and it is a slope so good footing is imperative.  I rolled it up, feeling like a crafty cavewoman.   I popped in a pretty Podocarpus el...