August 24, 2004
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Side Walk in front of our house Photo by Chris Duffy
I think I’ve been assigned a new job. I’m now a house hunter. But this is a good thing. My son and daughter-in-law are thinking about moving to our fair city and I’m the on-site house checker outer. They find one on the web they think they’d want to go see and give me the address. I then look it up on the web and get directions from our house to it and go check it out . . . with my camera of course. Sunday I spent about three hours going to different open houses and taking pictures and then sending them back to the kids. They want a fixer-upper like they got before. Sweat equity is a very good thing and they’ve done such a good job on the one they’re in now, that I hope they make a nice profit on it.
Comments (8)
Beautiful! Now come on down and make my yard look this good. Well at least come show me how to prune the wisteria on the arch.
Did you and Mike plant the lamb’s ear? (I think that is what I’m seeing, anyway) It looks wonderful. In fact everything I see there looks wonderful! :love:
It DOES look wonderful! Around here nobody fills their front yard with a garden. And I think it looks so neat! If I were younger, and could still get down on my hands and knees (actually getting down isn’t the problem–getting UP is) I would probably try it. But hubby’s sister, who owns this house, probably wouldn’t like it anyway.
Good luck with the house hunting. What you are doing is a great idea! Computers and digital cameras working together sure are wonderful, aren’t they?
Chris, I didn’t know that your whole front yard is a beautiful garden! Alice is always posting pictures of her flowers, but this is the first that I’ve seen of yours. It looks like something out of Home & Garden! :sunny:
It’s really not the entire front yard. There’s a circle drive that you can’t see for the shrubs between the drive and the sidewalk. My husband does 90% of the yard work also. I get too hot and my back kills me if I do much of it. I can’t do it first thing in the morning before it gets too hot either, because then we’re getting ready for work. My husband wanted something in the front so he would never have to mow out front. Worked. :goodjob:
Oh yes, Alice, Mike planted the Lambs Ear. We’ve been amazed at how big they’ve gotten.
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful! At our altitude our yards are pretty, but nothing like yours!! I like your husbands idea of nothing to mow out front.
Not mowing. Now that’s a bonus.
Mike