The Greenhouse

We have some daughters  that would love access to a greenhouse. Pat purchased one this spring and we spend hours assembling most of it in the garage. It was cold so after some time my frozen fingers had to quit. 

Several weeks later we finally got it finished just before Easter. 

We went to see a movie that evening after moving it to its designated place in the garden. We had some rain and light winds while we were gone and we found it flattened the next morning. 

Pat spent many more hours putting it back together. It wasn’t quite done and we were expecting some intense storms. We moved it too where Pat thought it would be safe. As the storm rolled through the greenhouse rolled into the front yard and up against the maple tree. 

Once more Pat spent hours attempting to straighten it and get it back together. Just a tiny breeze blew through between the house and garage and the greenhouse blew into the car and bent it once again. 

Enough!!!

Pat took the next few minutes kicking out the panels and disassembling the thing.   Then off to the dumpster and recycling with the entire thing. 

What was supposed to be a blessing turned out to be a huge headache and waste of time!

 

New Firepit

 This fire pit was first put in by my dad when he owned the house. We didn’t care for the weeds coming through between the pavers so we tried something different.  The first change was taking out the pavers and putting in ceramic tiles.  That worked great until Pat drove over some of them with the tractor in the winter.  Ceramic tiles and tractors don’t mix.  Cracked tiles.  We covered those with another type of tile that looked good for the summer.  They didn’t fare too well with the winter weather.  

A few weeks ago we pulled up all of the old and installed these new snap-together tiles.  It didn’t take long to find out we didn’t have enough.  Another order only to find out that color was not the same.  I came up with a pattern and I think it looks great!  Here’s to spending time around the campfire!