The trees in my neighborhood are slowly beginning to change colors, just a little bit, hinting at the riot of color soon to come It’s cold in the mornings now, here in the outskirts of Seattle. That prompts me to drink lots of hot tea and cuddle up with a dog and my overheating laptop …
About a week before the party, I started staging the tents in the back yard, practicing putting them up. I didn’t want to leave them out because of our summer Seattle rains, and I couldn’t leave a rug sitting on the grass as it would kill it. This party took an incredible amount of provisioning, …
This is what my Costco cart looked, two days before the party. While it was my only Costco trip I made for supplies for this party, it certainly wasn’t my only grocery store run! This is what my two refrigerators looked like right before the party – plus I had a couple frozen things stored …
I treated myself to an inexpensive “Sorbet Peach Melba” viola plant to brighten my front steps Now that Labor Day is over, kids in my area are back in school. I live right next to an elementary school – every morning I hear children’s happy, excited little voices as they are being dropped off. Now …
The flowerbed I’m going to have to weed tonight, like it or not! Have I ever mentioned that I really, really, really don’t enjoy gardening? Yet I love having pretty flowers in my yard. I have got to force myself to weed out these horrible nettles or thistles, whatever they are, out of the bed …
Flowers I bought to help decorate my backyard for a recent party Today I had the joy of quickly rushing out to retrieve my indoor/outdoor couch cushions from my outdoor living room – it was raining when I woke up! The weather was warm enough still – too warm for an indoor fireplace and my …