I might be celebrating too soon, but fence contractors came and removed the old fence, put in the posts for the new fence last Thursday, and haven’t broken a single thing yet. Now I just hope they come back again and finish it up so I don’t have to keep explaining to Oscar that [...]
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File: June 2008
This is one of those ideas I think could make someone rich, but I’m never getting off my ass to make it happen, so I hope someone else will do it for me. After a recent post about the swanky prefab (can you say those words in the same sentence?) houses from WeeHouse, I [...]
My neighbors have scheduled a fence guy to allegedly start today ripping down the chain link between our back yards and put in a new cedar fence. It’s not a fancy pants fence that would ever cause me to think twice, but I’m hoping it’s at least not the eyesore that the chain link [...]
Last night started out great. I left a busy day at work to meet some former co-workers for drinks to talk a little about how my old company was totally lame without me work over drinks. That was awesome and all. And then Justin was picking me up to go out [...]
This weekend I went out to the Bamboo Garden in search of a clumping bamboo for an empty spot along my fence line to create a little more privacy and winter interest. I had to resist the urge to head up the street 10 minutes to a great local bamboo nursery, because I wanted [...]
I’m spoiled with some excellent nurseries within a few minutes of my house, and it’s easy to rely on them without venturing out of the city limits. This weekend though, I’m heading out to The Bamboo Garden Nursery in North Plains Oregon, which seems very far away and remote, but I think it’s actually only [...]
From the June/July issue of Domino Magazine
I have a spot on my patio, right next to the neighbor’s elevated hot tub, which is currently screened fairly effectively by a huge snowball viburnum. It’s serviceable for now, but it really can’t be a forever solution. It’s quite old and misshapen, and barely supporting its [...]
I have this plan for my back yard, in a place where only weeds grow currently, to build a little sitting area. Well, a big sitting area. One that I can have soft comfortable outdoor furniture, a roof, electricity so I can plug in my computer and turn on lights, fully screened in [...]
I had a restrained trip to the nursery this weekend, since I am officially done buying until fall, except for gardening emergencies, like when I really really want something. I managed to pass up the red leafed castor bean, which I love for its fast growing big tropical leafed ways. It could be [...]
After weeks of chilly drizzly weather in Portland, which I prefer to hot dry weather any day, the sun came out on Thursday, and looks like it’s going to stay until fall. My heavy lifting in the garden ends abruptly when it gets hot, and I try my best to cut myself off from [...]