A New Flower Bloomed – It’s an Orange Trumpet Vine

A New flower bloomed in my yard about Mid-June. After some research I discovered that it is an Orange Trumpet Vine as you can see from the photos here. Earlier this week I spotted the new flower peeking out through the forsythia along the main highway. They’re very colorful and have a really neat way […]
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Another Scott’s PatchMaster Performance Update

The Scott’s PatchMaster I put down a while back has been doing well so far. It grew in pretty fast and has just been thickening up. It has now been mowed quite a few times. We started mowing when it ‘looked decent’ and have just kept mowing it as part of the normal yard. It’s […]
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Tags: grass, grass seed, Lawn, patchmaster, seed, sprinkler, Topsoil
Some New Flowers Popped Up – They are Platycodon Grandiflorus

Some new flowers have popped up in the yard, they’re pretty neat looking and purplish in color with dark bluish veins through the petals. The flower has 5 points and the petals are all one piece, not individual petals. The middle of the flower is white with a blue bulb at the tip. I managed […]
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Tags: flowers, planter, Planting Beds
Strange Cloud Formations and Yankee Gutter Repair Updates

Well I did get manage to get the roof leak patched on the house, but I got so absorbed with things like getting the tools put away, fixing the roof, etc and I didn’t bother getting finished photos. Due to feeling kind of lousy I just ended up patching the existing ‘gutter’ for now and […]
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Tags: Clouds, Gutter, repair, summer, thunderstorm, Video, Weather
There are Mushrooms Everywhere in the New Lawn

Well I woke to quite a surprise this morning! Mushrooms everywhere in the new lawn. Bryn had mentioned he mowed a bunch down when he mowed on Saturday but I didn’t think a lot about it. He didn’t mention that it was like this. Wow! I guess some things get lost in the verbiage 😀 […]
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