• Red Flowers and More

    Red Flowers and More

    Oh yeah, I forgot.

    Out of bloom out of mind, I guess.

    I also forgot about the blue flowered Salvia gaurenetica, the dark purple May Night salvias, and the red flowered fire spike and dwarf bottlebrush. And so, and I say this full aware of the absurdity of it, the ONLY flower color I don’t actually have in the back garden as I was talking about on the last post is peach. Peach… literally one of my favorite flower colors. Sigh. What ya gonna do, man. What ya gonna do.

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  • The Garden is Blog-Worthy in June

    No tight pulled in shots these days, more like some minimal selective cropping. It’s full on blog worthy these days! Finally!

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  • Mostly Roses in the Texas Garden in June

    Ah June in Texas.

    It’s supposed to be 103 tomorrow, did you know that? It’s so hot already I can get drenched in sweat if I wait until 10am to move 4 chickens into their run- this is not a difficult or time consuming task, just FYI.

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  • Life off the “Urban Homestead”in Texas and Air Travel in a Time of Coronavirus

    Whelp.

    Yeah.

    You know my old soapbox about staying home and staying safe? I still feel that, deeply. But considering I just flew to and from Florida for work means there should be a big ol’ hypocrisy asterisk  on the side of said soapbox.

    In my defense this was a required onsite for me to test out my product on a massive construction project north of Tampa.

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  • Texas in May, Mothers’ Day, and (Mostly) at Home we Stay

    Texas has lost its ever loving mind, I tell you what.

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  • Staying Home in Texas in April…wait it’s May?

    Do days/weeks/months even exist anymore? I can’t be the only one this is starting to all blur together for right?

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  • Pandemic Projects

    Pandemic Projects

    Hello, hello! How’s your pandemic going? We’ve been busy with things like this!

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