1900 Farmhouse

The long awaited chore of painting the picket fence has finally happened. It's only been about 10 years since it's needed a painting...

The last and easiest part of the rock wall project. Planting. I went to Portland Nursery which I knew was fairly spendy but figured it'd...

A friend on mine has a raspberry bush that's growing pretty frantically and offered some cuttings of it to me. Since I'm a huge fan ...

After getting the rock wall established, the next step is to create a foreground which is mostly as a mowing separation from the grass to th...

There's a house up on the east slope of Mt Tabor (a few blocks from me) that inspired me to take on this summer project of recreating th...

Having a somewhat decent garden in front, with a crazy chocolate labrador retriever that likes to tear it up from time to time with Sophie f...

So now that I have the Rhodie out of the way, it was time to take on the towering butterfly bush. I forgot to take pictures before the move ...

In the first week of June, I decided it was time to get back to work on the house. The first project to take on was making the landscape in ...

As I mentioned before in an earlier post, I travelled to St. Louis where my family is based. My mom had gotten this clock when I was just a...

This rainy and cold afternoon in Portland was spent outside chopping wood to smaller more usable firewood for the woodstove . After being on...

On Saturday morning I woke to a fairly large puddle in the downstairs bathroom. Such a drag. Fortunately, I didn't have any solid plans ...

Now that I got this blog up and running again, there's no stopping this next post. After all, this is a house blog, and toilets are a pa...

Last year at Labor Day, I used the 3 day weekend to paint part of my house. Since house painted is such a daunting task, I decided to break ...