As I’ve written before, I absolutely love salads, especially cold salads in the summertime. I regularly make two or three different kinds on Sunday evenings, and we have them for dinner for the next few days. My usuals are pasta salad, potato salad and chicken salad, and the ingredients consist of pretty much whatever I [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Summer Time is Salad Time, Part II
Posted in recipes, tagged Salad on August 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What a Difference a Week Makes
Posted in House Building on August 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I know it will slow down soon, but wow!
Continuous Bloomers
Posted in Gardening, Roses, tagged Roses on August 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love my continuous bloomers.
The only rule I have when selecting a rose is that it blooms from Spring to Fall, and has a scent. That’s it. Perfect.
My challenge now is to take cuttings of all my babies to take to the country to live.
Our Big Giant Paper House
Posted in House Building, farmhouse, tagged housebuilding on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Look at our big giant house! It’s incredible to me that it went from a basement on Sunday to this today.
It really isn’t a giant house. It’s actually a fairly small one story house, it just looks huge sitting on top of the basement out in the middle of 5.6 acres of nothing but trees and grass. We went [...]
Framing Has Begun
Posted in House Building, farmhouse, tagged farmhouse, House Building on August 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We spent a very nice day at the building site today, bush-hogging and doing 6 hours worth of lots of other things…Mike managed to spend all that time picking up litter from the builders (there really wasn’t that much), getting all the concrete spills on the ground into a pile, stacking stuff, sweeping stuff, cleaning [...]
Moving Right Along
Posted in House Building, farmhouse, tagged housebuilding on August 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The crews working on our house are amazing…they started excavating on July 19 and finished the basement yesterday, complete with built-in storm shelter. And we have a slab!
We’re a little crazy I guess, but we drove up tonight to see our lumber . Yes, it was practically dark, but we didn’t care, we needed [...]
That Mars/Venus Thing
Posted in House Building on August 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
People have been asking me all week how the house-building is going. I think it’s going great, my responses are usually something like – “The basement walls have been poured” or “the gravel for the basement floor has been spread” or “the storm shelter room is finished”. That’s about all the detail I know to [...]
