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comfy house may 2021 home about contact house gardens dedication to phil thursday may 6 2021 trying to catch up hi there sorry i was gone for so long again blogging seems different to me lately i m finding more and more bloggers are doing their thing on instagram instead of keeping up with their blogs and it s easy to understand why posting one photo and a blurb takes a few minutes versus a blog post that can take at least an hour by the time you re done uploading and editing photos and writing a post i sometimes simply lose my writing mojo too yard work continues around comfy house brian recently finished cutting down a bunch of dead tree branches that were overhanging the fence not our trees nor our fence this is the neighbor with the dreaded mulberry tree we desperately need some professional help with landscaping this year we have a huge bare spot in back of our house where we had a lilac bush dug out last year it runs most of the back of our house where there s barely any sun we can t even get grass to grow there we also need some landscaping done on both sides of the sidewalk we tried ourselves and failed and we d like to have bushes planted in front of our house we need a load of fresh dirt spread under the arborvitae trees that line our back yard we ve had a couple of landscapers out here for estimates but they didn t work out another is coming tomorrow afternoon they have excellent online reviews so we re crossing our fingers may is one of my favorite months the landscape is finally lush and green and beautiful and all the plants are coming to life the weather is still fickle daytime temps can be anywhere from the high 40 s low 80 s and you never know if it s going to be sunny or rainy we ve grilled twice and patio season has started hooray some plants around my yard right now bleeding heart ferns bishops cap peonies about to burst open celandine poppy hostas lining the walkway to the patio i made my first trip of the year to a favorite garden center last week it s still a bit early for there to be much to choose from as far as annuals go you can see that they start all their annuals from seed and that a lot of plants are just now growing so all i came home with were some lettuces which have doubled in size since last week and a couple of herbs i normally don t buy a lot of plants at the big box stores but the other day i was grabbing a few groceries and there was a home depot in the same shopping center i stopped in to look around and found daisies one of my favorites i only grabbed two plants thinking i d plant them in a smaller planter but the plants were too big my neighbor friend just passed along this lovely planter to me so it was perfect for the daisies i need just one more to fill in the area in the back of the planter now for the not so fun stuff i mentioned in my last post that we were busy with some projects one of which was some updates in the kitchen we are still looking for a general contractor a good one is hard to find the one we thought we were going to use turned out where they hardly do any of the work themselves they simply suggested other businesses that could do each job we do not want to hire five different contractors just for some kitchen updates another contractor that was supposed to stop by a couple of days ago to give us an estimate simply didn t show up i didn t receive a phone call email or text nothing we decided to start with something easy a new ceiling fan in the kitchen i know some people don t like ceiling fans in kitchens but we happen to love having one in there i do a lot of cooking plus this is where family and friends tend to congregate as the kitchen truly is the heart of the home in the warm months the extra breeze from the fan is a big plus we ve never had a problem with grease on the fan we hired an electrician because we needed some other electrical work done in the house as well we went out and bought a ceiling fan we thought would work but dummy us didn t measure how far down the fan would hang turns out this fan is 1 way too low 2 way too dark for our kitchen and 3 way too bright since the light is led and we don t have a dimmer switch and we still have dead zones around the kitchen with one big led light so we need recessed lighting in the ceiling too so now we are stuck with a fan we hate until we find another one the electrician said we should get one that comes with a remote where we can control the brightness of the light or else he can install a dimmer switch on another type of fan we also obviously need a flush mount fan and i think a white one would be best of course the big box stores don t have anything like this in stock it would have to be special ordered who would ve thunk that something as simple as a ceiling fan could get so complicated the excitement doesn t stop there when the electrician was up in the attic he found torn screening hanging down from the center of the attic ceiling and a big pile of dead leaves he said it looked like we had a nest of squirrels in there over the winter we couldn t believe it we haven t heard a thing overhead no scratching or scurrying and brian was understandably upset because a neighbor friend who s a roofer just did some minor repairs on our roof last fall so these naughty rodents must ve chewed through something to get into the attic brian got on the phone to an exterminator right away and they re coming out tomorrow morning we also recently discovered via our cat monkey that we have mice in the basement oh the joys of home ownership now that we re ahem getting older i am starting to see why people move into townhouses or condos when they retire sometimes all this upkeep is just too much sunset on our neighborhood lake thanks for hanging in there with me and my sporadic blogging as of late hope you all are doing well and staying healthy and safe created by melanie at 7 55 pm 18 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels ceiling fan 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spot where a bright red you are here arrow hovers undetected above our roof gretchen rubin happier at home we can do no great things just small things with great love mother teresa i don t know exactly what a prayer is i do know how to pay attention how to fall down into the grass how to be idle and blessed how to stroll through the fields which is what i have been doing all day tell me what else should i have done doesn t everything die at last and too soon tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life mary oliver our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us we ask ourselves who am i to be brilliant gorgeous talented and fabulous actually who are you not to be you are a child of god marianne williamson finish every day and be done with it you have done what you could some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as soon as you can 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