When home during summer (in our non-air-conditioned home), I hang out on the cool east side of the house, religiously sweeping this small patio clean and smooth to receive scorched, bare feet, occasionally laying down rugs for the corgi and cats, bringing a sliver of the reading material that piles up in the house, maybe a Peroni (if it’s after 4 o’clock.) The tile was left over from a friend’s DIY project and laid down decades ago, now badly in need of updating. This east side of the house was a no-go zone when we moved in 22 years ago, with massive oleanders pressing against the windows of the house, their girth reaching to the property line, filling this entire area that is now the patio. That Dutch door is where I head every morning with a cup of coffee to spy on to see what the neighborhood is up to. I defend this space like a cornered badger. Construction materials, rowing machines, bicycles materialize from time to time, but the offending space invader is immediately carried off the premises. And then I sweep again. In another life, I would be the sweeper of libraries, late at night. A little reading, a little sweeping…whisk, whisk.
But I’m rarely at home for the moment. Hope to be back here soon.
Love the Agave salmaniana with Erigeron karvinskianus and restio to the side? Is the Agave in a pot or are you not worried about it’s ultimate size?
Have you thought about painting the floor a an instant and cheap update?
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Love the Agave salmaniana with Erigeron karvinskianus and restio to the side? Is the Agave in a pot or are you not worried about it’s ultimate size?
Have you thought about painting the floor as an instant and cheap update?
d
I hope you are away doing fun things. Twenty two years huh? I bet you’ve seen a lot of neighborhood changes in that amount of time.
Dustin, I’m open to any and all ideas. I’ve been thinking of some kind of aggregate coating, paint, maybe laying new tile, but that would change the grade.
Loree, the stories this neighborhood could tell…
Well, how about that, I had long forgotten this project at the Denise house, and now here it is, completed (as much as anything outdoors is completed) and being used for the morning coffee WALAT. And empty pots too..nothing more empowering than an empty pot.
Hi Denise. This is my first look at your blog, and I think it’s great. You have a wonderfully engaging and descriptive writing style. Do you have a close up of the hanging pot on the left side of the pic? It looks really interesting.
I will be back!
D.