Showing posts with label landscaping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscaping. Show all posts
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Woman Jailed For Heinous Crime Of Not Maintaining Her Lawn Adequately

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Does this messy yard mean the homeowner should go to jail? A Tennessee city thinks so.   The property and landscaping Nazis continue to...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Tree Must Go. Don't Cut It Down, Blow It Up!!!!

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My husband Jeff is no fun. This is the FUN way to get rid of unwanted trees.   See, there's some trees on our St. Albans, Vermont ...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Another Brush Pile Burn As Dead Trees Keep Attacking Me

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Last Saturday, the second half of my immense brush pile at my house in St. Albans finally went up in flames.  It felt so good to get rid of ...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Snow Eater Thaw Does It's Job in Vermont

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This morning, when I got up, it was 47 degrees at my house in St. Albans, Vermont as we are on the tail end of a January thaw.  At the same ...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

A Bit Early For a Vermont Sign of Spring

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We're having a January thaw here in Vermont, a temporary break from the deep winter chill. We had a pretty substantial snow cover a fe...
Monday, December 3, 2012

My Annual Burning Ritual

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It's not exactly Burning Man , but every year about this time, I set the pile of brush, branches and tree trunks ablaze in my St. Albans...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Quebec Town Hates Front Yard Garden. Why?

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A couple in Drummondville, Quebec, well northeast of Montreal, are having quite a war with their town because they are growing vegetables in...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

The Annual Burn Pile

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Every year about this time, I complete my annual ritual of being an arsonist. No, don't worry, I committed no crimes. I just set fire ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Korean Lilac Cheers Me, Darlusz

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"Matt, you sister and dat husband she got really nize. What dat day leave out dare on da deck,?" asked Darlusz Zabagaiski, the Pol...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

City to Gardener: Lawns Rule

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A woman in Oak Park, Michigan is in big trouble for a terrible crime. She is growing vegetables in her front lawn.   How dare she? How un-...
Saturday, July 9, 2011

More Summer Flowers

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Things continue to bloom nicely around my yard in St. Albans, Vermont as you can see from these quick shots I took yesterday:
Friday, July 1, 2011

Summer Flower

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Flowers don't last too long. I'm trying to gradually plant gardens around my St. Albans, Vermont home so something's blooming fr...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Somebody's Watching Me

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The other night, I was sitting on the couch at home in St. Albans, Vermont,  mindlessly watching television, when I felt somebody outdoors w...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Dishing About Landscaping

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You can use just about anything for landscaping borders in gardens, and I came across this unique one in Burlington recently. Somebody in...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Progress at the House

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Sometimes, when I'm discouraged because of a rain out, or a lack of time, or both, in getting things done, like I am this morning, it...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Spring in my yard: Ugly and Beautiful

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It's been a weird spring around my yard and property in St. Albans, Vermont. Even as I work to improve the landscaping, bad weather ke...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Vermont's Fitful Spring Continues

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Spring is always an unpredictable time of year. Yesterday, a drenching rain soaked everything thoroughly, preventing me from really doing mu...