2 posts tagged “garden”
Pleasantly warm and sun-blind after a lengthy stroll through the local Catholic cemetery today. Spent a long time looking at the small small graves in the children's garden and photographing some beautifully mossy and decrepit headstones.
Been out in the yard more than usual at home, since the weather has been so fine. It's sweet to putter about in the dappled sunlight, hearing the occasional zephyr stir our Victorian glass wind chimes (a gift from ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
seathroughghost and company). I found an interesting critter under one of my heavy clay pots. We've also determined that our popular bird feeder often doubles as a squirrel feeder. There's a particularly cheeky fellow who visits quite frequently!
We already have tickets to see 300 on Friday at the Metreon IMAX theatre. *bounce*
Listening to:
The Everything Test
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We got it!
I received The Call from the realtor this morning, and a gorgeous Queen Anne Victorian in downtown San Mateo is ours. We are so pleased; it's a very charming house. All hardwood floors, wooden staircase and moldings, high ceilings, and beveled glass windows. There's a fireplace, bay window and built-in bookshelves in the living room. The foyer even has a butler's pantry for coats (a whimsical sort of walk-through closet that also opens at the other end from the dining room). The kitchen has a gas stove, new cabinetry and granite counters, dishwasher, and a funny root cellar pantry, too. The house has three bedrooms, two with candle sconces and built-in wooden drawers and one with a wide sloped-roof closet. There are two full baths upstairs, one with an old-fashioned clawfoot tub, and a half-bath downstairs.
The garden is lovely, with a wonderful mossy stone wall, and some of my favorite flora already: birch trees, violet-blue lobelia and hydrangea, bougainvillea, lavender, and baby tears. There are assorted others as well, including hardy azalea and camellia shrubs. I'm thinking of adding my black-and-blue salvia and must-have herbs in planters on the front or back porch.
I couldn't sleep Wednesday night for thinking about our lease offer. When I tried to count sheep, they would turn into furniture that I kept arranging and rearranging on the floor plan in my head. I drew the line, however, at getting up at three a.m. to measure our appliances, as I wanted to do. Final paperwork this weekend, and we get the keys on 15 October.
