Braves Baseball

We love Braves Baseball, that is all.

We won!  And think about this for a minute - Kimbrel struck out 4 batters in the 9th inning.  Pretty unusual

There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living

 - Nelson Mandela

Gardening

Last weekend Barrett finally got some of the nasty weeks and monkey grass pulled out of our biggest flower bed and we put mulch down to make it look nice and crisp.  This weekend I got some plants on sale and put them down.  I'm so happy with how it looks!  I wish I had a picture of the before, it was awful! Right now this first bed has hydrangeas and asters.  There are still some big open spaces that we'll fill as time goes on.  The bed behind this one that you can just get a peak at has roses but it is overgrown with monkey grass also.  Once all the monkey grass is pulled up we plan to ad more roses and extend the bed to the driveway.  We might spread out (replant) some of the roses that are there and mix in Double Knockout roses with them because we think those look so much prettier.  

These bed in front of the house had some really big, gnarly bushes that we pulled out.  On the right side of the steps there are several gardenias but we are going to move them back closer to the railing and put edgers in so that the bed ends at the edge of the steps.  Right now it comes out really far and it'll look better with clean lines.  We also need to trim back the huge rhododendron on the right and on the left side we have gardenias and azaleas.  The little box sitting onto of the railing will be mounted to the front like a window box.  It has dianthus in it right now.
I could use some help on this - I am also thinking about staining the front porch a fun color so that we can give the front of our house some color.  If I do that I think I'll paint the door a complimentary color.  What do you guys think about this?  I am thinking a dark blue stain on the porch and a lighter blue for the door.  This might be a project for early spring but I want it done now!

And just for good measure a picture of my lovely pups.  And don't you love my Mississippi State Door Hanger?!?!?!

Puerto Rico

Barrett and I went to Puerto Rico last month for a (slightly late) 5 year anniversary trip.  We had a great time.  We spent a ton of time relaxing on the beach and got a lot of reading done.  We also ate great food, explored Old San Juan, hike in El Yunque rainforest, and kayaked in a bioluminescent bay.  

DIY

Last week while Barrett was out of town I took on a home improvement project.  Our basement carpet was horribly stained and we knew it had to come up so I took the liberty of ripping it up.  We will soon put down tile which will be so much easier to clean and still look finished.

Just Getting Started

 

Moving Along

Look at that Pile of Nasty carpet

Other Direction, With a blanket for Reggie to lay on