Our Realtor, Nickie, has been a champ through the whole thing, and I have to thank her for her patience, perseverance and encouragement. We could not have done this without her.
SO.... on to the plans.
I have re-routed the waterfall. Instead of being straight and therefore somewhat boring, it is now curvy. Most of the rocks that made up its sides went into making flowerbeds all around it; it is now a waterfall flowing through a rock garden. I have planted various mints, some peacock orchids, blue monarda, and Stella d'Oro daylilies.
I have also spent most of a couple of weekends hauling rocks out of the woods to build a butterfly garden - but have not planted anything in it yet. I have planted two sourwood trees (lily of the valley trees, commerically), four spireas, four weigelas, two butterfly bushes, tulips, and daffodils. I have yet to plant some crocosmias (red, yellow and orange), the butterfly garden, and the comfrey. I hope to do that this weekend. I also divided up a neglected pampas grass and planted a hillside with the results. There were about 14 new plants, and I'm not finished with the dividing. I need to buy new work gloves before I tackle that again!
Other plans include painting the kitchen cabinets and building a shop for Jimmy. There's fencing to be done for our future goats and sheep, and that means we have to clean out the fence lines. Fortunately, we have the chainsaw-on-a-stick, AKA pruning saw, which will be very handy for that job. I have also recently begun exploring hypertufa containers for a raised-bed garden. I have lots of plans! But, all in good time. I plan on being here a long time.
A spectacular sunset in December 2012. Taken from the lower porch.
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