This Perfectly Imperfect Life

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Actually, this is about one of my favorite things in our home: the mantle. Many years ago, when I was a little girl and my hometown was still a wonderful community in which all of yours needs could be met without leaving its' one square mile, one of my mothers many purchases for us from the used furniture store down by the hospital on the river was this fireplace mantle.  Back then it was more off white than yellow and the barn red insert was a faux black & white marble.  It also came with one of those light-up electric log sets that had a tiny fan which blew strips of yellow, red & orange cellophane for that "cracking fire" affect.  I loved it!  I remember lying on the livingroom floor in front of it, in the dark, watching & listening to the "fire." Fast forward to 2004.  I'm 29 and Mom decided to get rid of the mantle.  She told me if we didn't pick it up by the end of that weekend, she'd take it apart and get rid of it herself.  ...

Trying to get the hang of using the video camera on my BlackBerry and posting video's here since lately it seems all the rage to do garden walk video's!  The montage was actually supposed to appear at the tail end of the longer video but somehow I created a separate video instead.  I made a new video today which I'll post later or tomorrow for Wordless Wednesday.  I made these last week after combining the front garden with the one throughout the back yard.  (For the down low on all of that (why it happened, how it happened etc) click here for my post entitled When Two Become One).     Welcome to my humble and deeply loved wee back yard!  (The only yard I've ever had!!!)

Click on photos for a larger view. It's said that God always gives you what you need when you need it and unexpectedly on Tuesday, the opportunity to combine my front garden with my garden in the back yard presented itself and I threw myself into it, with help, and was so thankful for the distraction! (To see why, click here ). It's something I've been considering for a while now, but as you know I can't do the lifting & moving, but didn't want to bother Hubbs with it given how busy he's been with both jobs and his American Legion Post recently. (He's been tired, not to mention he's having problems with his left knee again and will likely need surgery so I don't want him wrestling the huge containers). When the landscapers offered to help me, I couldn't say no! The landscapers moved All of my containers from out front to around back, as well as the front arbor, and placed the 3 Very heavy Forsythia bushes for me where I wante...

One of our elderly tenants POAs was having an apartment sale as she has moved to a nursing home. I purchased her dining table and chair set, which is pictured here. This table is larger than our old 1 (now out on the patio) but actually fits in this space better and brightens the kitchen up! (The old table is dark 1970s brown as are the chairs.)

This is the back "yard" area that needs a lot of work, especially along the fence because of all the ivy coming through.