If you’re not following The Impatient Gardener on Facebook you’re probably wondering what the deal with not posting the second half of the table re-do is. Well, here’s the ugly truth: Thursday night I was enjoying a glass of wine while doing a bit of computing and the next thing I knew, the glass of […]
When we started on the mini-kitchen redo last fall, I knew two things: I wanted a banquette and table that would allow us to easily slide in and out. That meant I was looking for either a pedestal or trestle style and after looking at what seemed like thousands of photos of tables online, I […]
Nope, not a move for us, but for a good friend. This Blue Angel hosta was the first plant I planted here, seven years ago. It has performed beautifully here, where it anchored a corner of the garden. I think a conservative estimate of its size is 5 and a half feet wide. My neighbor […]
Thank goodness for cameras on phones, right? Since I don’t always walk around with a camera but I almost always have my phone with me, it’s so nice to be able to snap a shot of something great, even if people are staring at you for taking a picture of a chair. That’s what happened […]
I added a window box under the kitchen windows this summer and I just love it. Our all-white house really needed a shot of color and interest and the window box was just the ticket. But as you know, containers change through the season. I thought it would be interesting to look back and see […]
I’m not sure it’s right to even call it a construction update, since no construction has technically begun, but it’s all related, right? Here’s the background: If you’re new to the blog the deal is that we are about to embark on a partial renovation of our house. We’ll (and I don’t literally mean “we” […]
I’ve been walking past driftwood my whole life. I couldn’t begin to add up how many walks on the shore of Lake Michigan I’ve taken over the course of my life, but an average of two per week since I was about 5 equals about … well, a lot. And until about four years ago […]
