Tag: spring
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Cleaning the garden beds
Once we had the edging installed we knew exactly what the garden’s boundaries were and proceeded to the next step: cleaning out the weeds and bermuda grass. These beds needed a DEEP cleaning – there were loads of unwanted plants growing there and of course with the plants came roots. Also, because we neglected the…
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Planting Pansies
On the same day that Javier and I planted the new little rose garden on the side of the house we also filled up the newly-empty half whiskey barrels with fresh potting soil and planted some suffering pansies. We came across the abandoned plants at Lowes while we were shopping for edging and other materials…
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Our new rose garden
Before we continue with tales of our Chicago trip, we’re going to continue with our garden saga. After moving three big bushes from the front of the house to the side, we started working on sections of the landscape that were ready for planting. Ever since we got the house (and especially after visiting my…
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Spring Cleaning!
My spring cleaning desperation got the best of me this weekend. Every spring my summer clothes start piling up on the floor, on furniture and on pretty much every surface where they don’t belong. The mountains of clothing start to materialize right around the same time that mountains of homework and assignments pile up. Since nobody is…
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Around the house
Since I posted about the signs of spring popping up all over our yard, we’ve had a variety of plants and flowers sprout and bloom everywhere. The woman who used to live in our house was an avid gardener and luckily for us she planted flowers that don’t need any upkeep or attention from us.…
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Might as well be summer in Nashville
It’s barely spring and we’re already acting like it’s summer at the Los Rodriguez mansion. Ever since Javier bought his grill the weather has been consistently in the 80s and I think today it got all the way to 91. Does anyone remember back in February when I mentioned I might be a little bummed…
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Summer prep and other weekend happenings
Over the weekend Javier pretended it was summer. We went to Lowes Saturday morning to buy some spackle to fix something in the office and we left with a brand new charcoal grill and a weed whacker. Javi spent the afternoon assembling his new grill and giving our lawn a much, much needed manicure. This…
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SB2012 and Lulu Mae!
This week is Vanderbilt’s spring break, which in graduate student speak means “spring catch up time” or, if you’re a really good student, “spring get ahead” time. My spring break has been dedicated to the former – catching up on my thesis work so I can finally start analyzing data and writing the damn thing!…
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Is spring springing?
So we all know that I’m a winter person and that I’d always, hands down, pick a long winter over a long summer. I hate the insects, sweat and unbearable heat, among other things, that come with the dog days of summer. In Nashville, the “dog days” pretty much last for 4 straight months –…
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