Thanks for the lovely comments. :-) I love sharing with people who appreciate gardening and I know I love to see other's pictures. Token - That little dragon came from LTD but I got it about three years ago. I've never seen it anywhere again. It's one of my favorites. The bamboo fence just attaches to my regular chain link fence. My mom and I attached it all with wire then realized we didn't have enough. (Proabably should have measured. haha.) So now it all has to come down and be moved over for the new part. Looking forward to seeing everyone's gardens this year. I always get excited when I see someone has posting new pictures. :-)

The items are set in base, which includes varying amounts of gravel. This is only meant as a garden path, if we just want to get to the backyard we use the other side of the house. That's where the side doors and driveway are located, so it's much more convenient. So far no one has had a problem with the path. Our second garden tour was yesterday, so there's been quite a bit of traffic. Hardy anyone even noticed what they were walking on yesterday, because they were from the Hosta Society and were busy looking at the hosta. The base was the only expense for this project. The metal pieces were lying around the house and the brick and stone were from the previous path. We made the greenhouse five years ago mostly from old windows we picked up at an auction for two dollars. At that time there weren't any pictures posted on the internet of this. We had to come up with the plans ourselves, and we had never built anything with a roof before. We were so proud of it and ourselves when we finished. My Dh came home with a big round fiberglass tub about 4' round and 1' deep for free, that I think we'll make into a miniature garden. Then Thursday he came home from work with an antique cane cutter for just $30 that will make a great garden ornament. I use to be the creative one but he's really picked up the bug too.

Hi Kim, We've gotten to know our retired neighbour who was great friends with the former family that lived here. The house has always been in their family & was actually located much further down the road. In the 60s they disassembled it & put it back together in it's present location. They were very poor country folk, & couldn't afford to have a basement dug, so they put it on top of the old cistern, so the wife could have a basement. The walls of the cistern are 2 1/2 feet thick, which our electrician found out when he drilled the hole for the new electric service. When it was moved, all the original character was lost. The upstairs had TenTest (a tar covered fiber board, meant for outside sheathing) instead of drywall, presumably because it was cheaper. There was no flooring upstairs, just plywood. Downstairs was tangerine orange/lime green linoleum floor which someone must have gave them, because the seams overlap & are nailed down. The walls are covered in 70s paneling. The only original thing was the windows, with their wavy glass, but living in Canada, we took them out & replaced them with something more energy efficient. They probably weren't so bad in the days when the wife stayed home & kept feeding the wood stove, but since we both work, it was costing alot of money in Hydro. So, we will be gutting the whole thing & trying to make it old again. We started upstairs. A neighbour down the road is taking down a mostly collapse barn & it planing up the wood for wide plank flooring. It started arriving last night. We're letting it acclimate, then we'll lay it & stain it a nice dark colour. When we put in the electric sockets, I put them 12 inches above the floor so that I could have 8-10 inch baseboards. We'll be putting in an outdoor wood boiler & having radiant floor heat. And then we'll be working on the main floor. We're trying to do most of the work ourselves to save money, so I'm hoping to be done by next June. All the best! Gail

I saw the photos of this masterpiece the first time around but was thrilled to sit through a more extensive tour - even if I had to remove my boots. Ha! newdawn, when we bought our house, the heating/lights/water bill here was more than our old house's mortgage! igloochick, you will have to put in intercoms for DS and any future ice cubes... My kids were young when we moved into our house and they would loose me. My house isn't nearly as big as your will be. We painted our house for $17,000. You have one lifetime project ahead of you.