As a kid, hide & seek is an all time favourite game. Finding little nooks and crannies to hide in while others looked was always fun. When we finished the rock garden by the air conditioner, the planters beside the big air conditioning unit, just lost some of its lustre and beauty. So we decided…
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Rockin’ It Tour
Loving the re-designed flower bed, we decided to use the same look on another flower bed in the upper lawn area. It is right next to our back door and houses our air conditioning unit. The previous owners had planted some beautiful bushes but they were unruly looking, no matter how much trimming we did…
Wagging Tails
Throwing it back to a little earlier this year, I thought I would share one of the projects I worked on in our beautiful shop. I didn’t take a lot of photos as this was more of an experiment and I didn’t think the first draft would actually turn out as well as it did…lesson…
Rockin’ it
Just a quick post today about the progress on the rock-filling of our top garden. I went and picked up another 100′ roll of landscaping fabric to finish off the few areas that we missed when we ran short on our other roll. I am sure that this roll won’t last long either, especially if…
Little Shop of Dreams
When we first purchased our house, we were not originally looking for a place that had a shop. I only required a garage at the time. I am sure happy that we ended up with a detached shop to go along with the house we love. I have always liked to build and create things,…
Can you dig it?
Jiggered at how well the walls went together, we decided to start filling and levelling it as best we could. A few years ago, when this project first began, we had all of our junipers torn out. As part of the clean-up, the company we hired made the slope nice and even and left a…
Fancy Stacks Part 2
Just as we were getting the hang of building walls with wire and rocks, we decided to switch gears and try our hand at another style of wall. We have spent so much time tiering our back yard that we have let some of the already established gardens get a little out of control. Going…
‘Tis the Season!
Jolly greetings to everyone this holiday season. We hope you all had enjoyable holidays, in whatever form they may have come. We love this time of year, spent with family and friends, enjoying warm fires in our wood stove, and cuddling up with our dogs for quiet movie nights. We are looking forward to the…
Beans, Beans the musical fruit…
One of my Dad’s staple dinners was beans and wieners on toast. To this day, it is still one of my fall/winter favourite meals. Of course, when my dad talked about beans, he also taught us the beans song: Beans, beans the musical fruit The more you eat, the more you toot The more you…
Ketchup Catsup
Judging by the attention span of my nephews, ketchup or catsup, may not be the most thrilling item to make, but it sure is tasty when homemade. I am also going to preface this by saying, I still buy ketchup, but I had a baked beans recipe I wanted to try, and I had tomatoes,…
JK Building The Dream 