Craigslist find!! (I've been MIA)
I know I've been MIA, but I assure you, I'm not gone for good! Spring has been very busy trying to bring back 25 acres of pasture, adding a bunch of new chickens to our flock, battling five foot long diamondbacks.... And focusing on those projects you have to do after finishing a house - staining 700 square feet of porch, repainting the living room and kitchen because the color you chose looked like cat vomit, starting an orchard, sanding and painting a dining table for the porch (still in progress)..... Did I mention my husband is deployed and we have three little ones?! All this stuff just keeps us busy, though!!!
ANYWAY, there was a point to this post! My kitchen completion has been at a stand-still since the last time I posted. No backslash, though as stated, I did repaint. Ill get updated pics tomorrow. I've been hunting everywhere for white or blue counter height stools with a rush seat. For cheap because, well... I'm cheap! Apparently, I'm not the only one. Every time I found some they were out of stock! I need them NOW! Not really, but really!
Then I found these. $65 each. Not bad but still, budget. I was reluctantly going to do a backless option that was more like $50. Sigh. Budgets suck. I had already scoured Craigslist. OR HAD I?!? Thank God I scoured once more and found....
These beauties! Four of them for... $75!! But they were listed a month ago with no phone number, just an email. So I emailed and sulked because I knew they were gone. An hour later she responded. They are all mine! Picking them up in the am! Eeeeeeee! But here's where y'all come in. I need to decide on a color! So here's my kitchen before I repainted. Ill get new pics tomorrow afternoon after I pick up the stools, but feel free to share ideas! New paint color is a medium neutral blue/green (Stratton blue).
Its now the colour of the dining room, seen through doorway to the left.
So... Stick with white? Blue? Dark? Help! And thank you four reading through alllll of this!
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Comments (52)Peat makes an excellent preservative. The modern horticultural practice of using a sterile medium like peat is in order to create a hydroponic environment, that can force-feed plants into rapid production. I've found a few nurseries who grow in-pot organically, and they avoid peat. I don't see large chunks of pine bark in their soil medium, either. Some use rainwater to irrigate, most are wholesale and at least one is open to the public. Transplanting and establishment ease have been outstanding with these trees grown organically with a comost-based medium. Some use pots that are designed to eliminate circling roots. This is a far superior product, that establishes and plants easier, than any tree grown in peat, or in a plastic pot. It's really a leap were speaking of, for a root to make the transition from an extremely acidic, sterile medium to a nearly neutral, live mineal soil. It ain't natural, and creates unnecessary stress on the plant when it needs it least-- during root establishment. But we grow potted plants in peat, anyways. Modern horticularal practices do not serve the grower so well, Most of the potted trees and plants you'll find in a retail nursery, have been force fed to grow lots of pretty foliage, in a poor soil medium, with underdeveloped and potbound roots. I know peat is good at preserving cave people and tubulars. But as a potting medium, it's used becasuse it is thought to be cheap, and that's the bottom line. There are conflicts of interest between the grower and the hulticulturalist who pushes peat as a pot medium. A lot of the carp they teach in hort school (and ag school, and other fields), has a bias towards perceived economic benefits, and can ignore for years, better, sounder science. M This post was edited by Mackel-in-DFW on Fri, Apr 25, 14 at 23:01...See MoreI've been eagerly anticipating...
Comments (13)Thank you, ogrose. I used to try to grow the kind of roses you can grow, and then swore off roses due to the difficulty keeping of them alive here. When I discovered that I loved the form of roses other than HTs, I discovered hardy roses. Mandolls, here's a link to an article with a list of hardy roses. I have 2 polestar that cover a large arbor...they rarely have any winter kill, and when they do, they bounce right back. I'll post a picture when they bloom. I also have kilwinning (blooming right now, but it's difficult to take a good photo of it), Julia Bugnet, Lac La Nonne, Foxi pavement and purple pavement. And then there's the rose that started me down the path of hardy roses...Blanc Double de Coubert; I passed it at the garden nursery, and actually turned around to see where the amazing scent was emanating from. I was so disappointed to find it was not only a rose, but a white rose. If I was going to give in and buy a rose, it certainly wouldn't be a white one! But after I turned around 3x to sniff it again and again, I had to take it home. Then I saw an ad on Craigslist by a local grower for a hardy yellow rose. Those aren't easy to find here, so I reluctantly contacted him and ended up with Kilwinning. Last summer was the first summer I didn't contact him with, "what do you have for me this year." I just don't have room right now for more (although I intend to change that!). Oh, and I have rosa glauca, too. I love the leaf color. It seems to have reseeded this year...it will be interesting to see if the blooms are the same. Here is a link that might be useful: very hardy roses...See MoreI've been making plates...(7 pics)
Comments (34)"--That is quite a compliment, Dcarch! --" You are not going to make a good lawyer. I said your stuff is better than theirs, I never said theirs is any good. LOL!!!! Reminds me of a joke: There is a horse that can jump higher than the Empire State Building. ------ (The Empire State Building can't jump ) But serious, if you would just picture desserts served on those plates, that would be a totally amazing way to enjoy. dcarch...See Morecraigslist finds, finally!
Comments (20)Yes, Patches is 100% correct about what I was saying, sorry I wasn't as clear as I could have been. I give away a lot of stuff on Freecycle - when I have a "taker", I put the item on the porch for them and keep the door locked. If it's raining I put it in one of those clear trash bags. Far large items I'll schedule it for when DH and maybe a friend (our best friends are now literally 2 minutes away) are here so THEY can move it out and the other people can just wait outside. If I put anything on Craigslist (or eBay for local pickup) I'll probably use the same routine, and send DH outside for the payment. It's not that I'm paranoid, it's that I don't trust anyone as far as I can throw them. ;-) Plus with the neuro stuff the CFS is kicking up lately, I wouldn't be too great at fighting someone off if they jumped me, although I think the trend lately is for scoping out houses for later robberies more than home invasions. I was pleasantly surprised, though, at how comparatively little it cost to rent the cargo van from Enterprise - about $75 after all the taxes, with unlimited mileage. That's way less than even the smallest U-Haul (which we nickname U-Dragit because every time I've rented one the darn thing's broken down on the side of the road and needed towing to the nearest U-Haul branch!) would have been, since he put around 150 miles on it and they're soaking a buck a mile these days! I'm hoping, though, that when DH's car finally dies there'll be a compact pickup with really good gas mileage on the market, that would be a very practical replacement....See More
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