News From Around The House

It's complete ... the quilt I posted photo's of previously.

 Quilting and binding are next and this baby is done.

 For reasons unknown to me this fabric has a Japanese feel to it.

 Julep and Derby having a play date in my sewing room.

 Around the back yard - here are a few photo's.

 I sprinkled 4 big bags of wildflower mix along the

back of our property - nothing came up.  As a test I put

a handful of seeds in the front and side beds around the house.

I got a few pop up wild flowers mainly zinnia.

 Crepe Myrtle's are in full bloom.  The post-bloom seed

pods are so heavy that I have to trim the ends.

Weeping Wisteria 

Finally we have blooms and this is exciting!

Wilson planted a tree wisteria last year and this tree has

grown like a weed with no blooms - until now.  We think

the 'hair cut' Wilson gave it sparked the growth of flowers.

There are only a hand full of these beautiful blooms

 so we are hoping next year it is covered.

 Around the house news ... now here's a story.

We decided to encapsulate the crawl space for various reasons

 - mainly because the plastic covering the earth was in

tatters and half the insulation was falling from the rafters.

{Side story - we were told the previous owners left the crawl

space door open so the cats in the neighborhood would have

 a place to go].  Included in the encapsulation process was a

new sump pump and dehumidifier.

Wilson wanted extra lighting installed which was a 2 day
electrical project.  Everything was going well until I

decided to take a bath.  When the electrician came back 

to finish his part of the work he told us we had a puddle of

water in our crawl space.  To make a long story short we need to
 pull out our jacuzzi tub and get a new one.  We will try and
get the same size tub in order to save all the new tile work.

Now let's go to the roof!

In January I was putting holiday boxes back in the attic when 

I found various piles of snow on the insulation and on the 

floor.  This is never a good sign.  Moving on to spring/summer and 

all the rain we've had coupled with the high winds we lost a few 

shingles off the roof.  This resulted in a leak which appeared in the

ceiling outside our bedroom door.   So we've been getting

estimates on repairing vs. replacement of the roof.  While

this is a big chunk of $'s we decided to just do it and get

the entire roof replaced [now get this] including the new

roof that's on the back porch addition.  All the roofing

companies pointed out the roof on the porch addition was the

wrong type of shingle because of the gradual incline.   Who knew!

Without a change to the correct shingle the warranty of the rest

of the roof would be void.   So the roofing replacement is set to 

start on the 21st.  This summer has not given me one dull moment.