Wildflowers

Sorry I haven't gotten a picture of the new window yet! I've been busy working at Sbux, on the house, and helping with VBS this week. Good news... The water problems have been fixed, and I have hot water, the garbage disposal works, water doesn't pool in the dishwasher, and there are no leaks! My dad is awesome.

One of the blogs in my (too-long) list featured a post about wildflower gardens. Have I told you I love flowers? All kinds... the ones you plant in pots, the ones you plant in gardens, and the ones that grow along the side of the road.

You may have noticed that my yard is huge. So far I haven't had to mow it myself yet, because my dad kindly tasks his summer workers to do it once a week. But it is BIG. When I first moved back to Indiana, my mom and I talked about doing a wildflower garden / no-mow yard along the side to make it a little less tedious to mow. Finishing the interior of the house so it was livable was a higher priority at the time, but hopefully next summer I will be able to take a chunk of the yard and have beautiful wildflowers!

Here's some inspiration from around the web:

Maya*Made's no-mow yard

you are my fave says wildflower gardens are my fave

Enjoy!

Windows and Screens

Well, summer has come to The Little Yellow House, and it is a scorcher! I've mentioned turning on the air conditioner to see if it works, but my parents always scoff and say "Already?? It's not that hot!" Unfortunately, of the 8 windows in the house, only one has a completely hole-free screen in it. One other in the bathroom only has a few small holes. So along with being hot and humid, I have no air circulation! (Of course the good screens aren't the ones in my bedroom.) But today Dad rearranged the existing screens so that I'll be able to get a breeze through the house and will be able to sleep at night!

ALSO... Today Dad and the boys are putting in my new, big, fancy front window!!! Pictures to come :) (The only bad thing is that Jack has to be locked in the bathroom so he doesn't escape through the giant hole in the wall, and he doesn't like it one bit!)