Where do you dry hand-dyed fabrics?
Posted: October 6th, 2008In a dryer?!? No, silly! (Yeah, that’s what I thought too…)
Tagged: backyard • fabric • hand-dyed | Category: Art, DIY, Fabric Art. | Comments: 1
Our new private garden
Posted: May 4th, 2008This weekend we completed the landscaping project’s last major construction phase: enclosing the “garden” area next the house, just off the dining room. It looks great! And it feels like we’ve added a new living space to our house. We used to call this our “rose garden” because there were so many roses [...]
Tagged: backyard • fence • landscaping | Category: DIY, landscaping. | Comments: 2
Drip, drip, drip…no more hand watering!
Posted: April 30th, 2008Tonight Julie and I finished installing the main drip irrigation which will water all of the backyard’s raised beds and ground cover. (Psst! Wanna know the trick to slip drip irrigation tubing together with barbed slip connectors?
Tagged: backyard • CAD • gardening • irrigation • landscape | Category: DIY, landscaping. | Comments: 2
First weekend of planting — the birds, bees, and lizards are happy!
Posted: April 27th, 2008When we removed all the scrub trees and overgrown landscaping a few years ago our pair of morning doves looked downright depressed and confused. Nowhere to land or explore. And the blue jays that used to “squawk” us awake every morning would fly in occasionally, but wouldn’t hang around for long.
Tagged: backyard • birds • dogs • landscaping | Category: DIY, landscaping. | Comments: 3