Search Results for “garden” – Los Rodriguez Life

Growing Orchids at home

Oh I remember seeing that huge orchid sitting on the corner table. Green lush leaves, shinny like polished leather, almost fake looking. The flower spike coming out of the plant shooting straight up and then bending down at the top to create a cascade effect of flowers. And the blooms, oh the blooms…large white petal […]
Floyd’s View Farm

Happy Memorial Day! We are still in social distancing mode while Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc on 2020, but today we actually found a new adventure that was outside, away from people, and something new and different for Penny. Win win win! We took Penny and Goldie out to visit our friend Ken Marks’ new […]
My Favorite Nursing Accessories for Breastfeeding Moms

I’m back in the throes of breastfeeding and I forgot that it’s basically a full-time job. My recent memories of nursing Penny were when she was older, and breastfeeding was more about bonding rather than a matter of sustaining her life. Nursing a newborn is a round-the-clock endeavor to keep her belly full and her […]
Golden Louise is finally here!

Our sweet Golden Louise arrived a little over a week ago today after 41 weeks of waiting, and we have once again fallen head over heels for a beloved daughter. The beauty of this post is that it doesn’t have to be long and explanatory like our post about Penelope’s arrival (although I can’t resist […]
We swapped our carpet for vinyl planks and EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL.

When we moved into our house last year we tore out carpet, painted, redid the stairs, replaced 18 windows, and added a fence and started a garden. Everything ground to a halt when Penny arrived. Besides a new baby, what really stopped us was the fact that all of the rooms we now want to […]
Pile Composting: How and Why

Composting is great for the garden and beneficial for the environment in general as we reduce the amount of trash going to landfills. Composting can be done on different scales; from huge industrial operations to small home-based systems. In this series of posts I want to share the 4 ways I compost. I already discussed […]
How Trench Composting Fixed My Garden Soil

The Los Rodriguez Mansion garden has officially exploded. When I started building this garden and ordered the soil, I was not impressed with the quality of the soil I received…to the point that I simply called it dirt. Soil entails having an ecosystem; fungi, bacteria, bugs, nutrients, organic matter, etc. living in harmony while facilitating […]
Five Tips to Prevent Flooding in your House

Not everything in Los Rodriguez life is glamorous…actually, there is not that much glamour in our lives, period. We try to highlight the great times, but as Dr. House would say, life isn’t always sunshine and puppies! Up until last Friday it felt like it rained every single day for the past two weeks, which […]
Summer So Far

School is out, lightning bugs are here, and it’s 90 degrees every day this week, all of which make it officially summer regardless of what the calendar says. We’ve been making the most of it already with the help of Gia and Jackson – it’s fun to watch them learn to love summer and I […]
Trip to Alabama and Penny’s First Flight

Between Javi working on new furniture to sell and my wedding photography schedule, most of our free time has been spoken for this spring. Last weekend we set aside our projects and took a few days to go and visit my aunt Jane and uncle Bruce in Alabama. A few years have passed since we […]
Derby 2018 pt.1

Happy Derby! It’s been so crazy around here with Derby season, wedding season picking up in my photography world, spring landscaping and gardening, and on top of everything Penny is teething so we are surviving on minimal sleep. On Thursday night we went to Javier’s company’s annual Derby party at the Kentucky Derby Museum and […]
We Have a Garden!

Back in Nashville, Javier spent an immense amount of time and effort building up our garden from summer 2011 after we moved in right up until fall 2015 when we moved away. Every year he’d add a raised bed and fence it all in again with chicken wire. He’d come home from work or class […]
Just the Two of Us

Javi and I are taking full advantage of the time we have left together as a family of 2 (plus three dogs) before Penelope arrives. Everyone has warned us (and warned us…and warned us…and told us….and reiterated to us…) that we won’t get out as a couple for a while after our little bundle o’ joy arrives, […]
Good Neighbors and Tasty Crepes

I just have to drop a line and brag on my neighborhood for a quick second. I *love* our new street. Living near good, friendly people makes a big difference for me when it comes to feeling like I live in a house vs. a home (shoutout to our Nashville neighbors Kari and Colin – […]
What we didn’t DIY

Back in May when I first started posting about our projects for the new home, I mentioned three tasks that we either couldn’t or didn’t want to DIY. These were three top-of-the-list items that had to be taken care of before September when Penelope arrives, and I’m happy to report that they have been checked […]
Quick Trip to Cinci

Javi and I took a quick day trip up to Cincinnati on Saturday to visit Danielle, Chris, and Embry in their “new” (now 2-years since they moved in!) house. We’ve been wanting to visit for a long time, but they keep spoiling us by making trips down to Louisville so we’ve been putting it off. […]
New digs in Louisville!

It’s safe to say it’s been the craziest roller coaster of a year ever for me and Javier. In January we found out we were pregnant, in February we listed our Nashville house and in March finalized that sale, in April we put an offer on a new house in Louisville and listed our current Louisville house for […]
Goodbye Sweet East Nashville Home

Gather ’round and let me tell you a tale of house hunting in East Nashville in 2011. Back then, the only houses in our very very tight budget were in East Nashville. Our superb realtor Marcie Nash showed us houses all over town, but saved the best one for last: the house that eventually became our sweet first home in South […]
Weekend at home

We’ve been busy around here! Two weekends ago was everything a weekend-at-home should be. On Friday Javi and I spent the evening eating pizza and playing scrabble with grandma at home. Javi won that round. On Saturday we started off with Sunday Morning Pancake Mix chocolate chip pancakes (as every Saturday should start). Javi studied, I lounged, […]
The thing about blogging…

The thing about blogging is that if you leave it alone for any period of time you feel like you have to catch up, and catching up can be a drag (especially if you’re translating the post!). The longer we wait to catch up, the longer the recap post gets and then suddenly several weeks […]