Jiles and Auggie, A Heavy Ball
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| One of many blessings on a peaceful afternoon. We hope it shares a smile. |
| One of many blessings on a peaceful afternoon. We hope it shares a smile. |
It’s festive to look out the window and find busy birds peck-peck-pecking away, dining on some of the more hideous creatures that hide in our non-lawn (shhhh, ticks).
We don't have much of a lawn. We do encourage a vigorous landscape of weeds, though. And a weedy "lawn" has benefits, not that encouraging weeds makes yard care easy. Tom puts in a lot of work to keep au naturale from mowing us under. But along with the trees and shrubs, our chemical-free weeds invite baskets full of butterflies, plus owls, hawks, hummingbirds, a variety of sparrows and warblers and woodpeckers to suburbia, just to name a few visitors.
In a little over two weeks this past summer, Tom and up to two other men put together this much of our vacation home in Maine. The roof is dried in, the windows and most of the doors are installed, the tar paper lining is in place. In April they will put on the siding, the decks, and get the interior in shape.
Even using the same building techniques in Miami, which you couldn’t do, this same job would have taken many months to complete. Actually? It would have taken many months just to get the plans approved. With inspections for virtually every screw inserted, it can take months between steps to progress on a building project. Frustrating. Necessary since we do live in a primary hurricane zone, but still frustrating. Tom has really enjoyed his time on this project so far. I’m looking forward to summers without the south Florida steam. Hope all keeps building according to plan!
Our hobby. Our job.
Someone has to do it.
(We do it at unoakedchardonnay.com)
But we have other hobbies, too.
And rather than clutter the
website with bits that have
nothing to do with reviewing
unoaked Chardonnays, we'll
share our amusements here.
