The Two Marys

It’s good to be back!  Wow – May went by so fast, with so many projects, but internet woes kept me from posting.  Guess I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.  The Two Marys – Mary Dahl and Mary Elder are coming for lunch on Thursday, so trying to finish a few projects before they come to Dove Cottage for the first time. 

Here are some photos of things that have been going on around Dove Cottage ---- and Majestic Acres, my parents’ 5-acre  homeplace.

 

                    

 Painted all Mom’s and Pop’s porch rockers a fresh new coat of green

for their rocking chair porch at Majestic Acres.

Don’t they look better than the old gray-green?                               

 

Finished my folk-art garden at the entrance to Dove Cottage

complete with sunflowers, hollyhocks, allium, and poppies.

Decorated in neutrals for Summer – cool and easy to live with.

 

Made a new canvas awning to replace the vinyl one that was ripped apart in a winter

storm.  This one will be painted white with black stripes as soon as I have a sunny

day when it isn’t so windy.  Also got the Proven Winner baskets from English Country Gardens

installed in the window buckets under the awning.

Raked and cleared my walking trails in the woods

While clearing the trails, discovered Indian Pipes (fungi mushrooms) popping

up all over the woods after all the rain we had this Spring.  Their white ghost like

appearance is always welcome.  I’ll definitely show them to The Two Marys.

Happy Summer, Blairsvillagers!

Internet Woes

Windstream is one of only three internet providers in my small town, and the service has never been great – it’s down, it’s up, it’s down, it’s up, it’s down, it’s still down…….

I wish I could just go down to the AT&T store and get a hot spot.  But I stream Roku over the internet and watching Netflix movies, I would eat up the monthly data of a hot spot in about one day.    So I decided to go with the new fiber optics internet service offered by our electric co-op.  I hear only good things about it. 

All this has, of course, affected my posting here on Blairsvillager.com and being active on facebook. As soon as the fibers are installed – in the next six weeks (there’s a long installation waiting list), I’ll be up and rolling again.  I’m looking forward to it!  ~Jo