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Tag: Landscaping

Outdoor Speakers + Your Deck or Patio = BETTER

Outdoor Speakers + Your Deck or Patio = BETTER

  • Home Improvement Projects
    8 min
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  • 5 years ago
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One of the best features of our house (especially when we have NICE weather), is our Deck and the Outdoor Speakers we just installed. While there are miles and miles it seems to maintain all of the deck (1400+ Square Feet), we […]

Tagged Exterior, Landscaping
What do you do when your find an unexpected Hill Cart in your yard?

What do you do when your find an unexpected Hill Cart in your yard?

  • Lifestyle
    6 min
  • 507
  • 5 years ago

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I would be the owner of a Hill Cart, aka Funicular and aka Trolley… A word/phrase that never crossed my mind. In fact, when we bought this house, our Hill Cart was […]

Tagged Exterior, Landscaping, Mid-Century
Replacing our Landscaping Pagoda Pathway Lights

Replacing our Landscaping Pagoda Pathway Lights

  • Home Improvement Projects
    7 min
  • 342
  • 5 years ago
  • 13

Pagoda lights have been around for many years. We actually had some in our first house – but they did not work and looked horrible. I ripped them out and replaced with modern deck lighting. On our new house it had Pagoda […]

Tagged Landscaping, Mid-Century
Awesome and Relaxing Spring Morning

Awesome and Relaxing Spring Morning

  • Lifestyle
    1 min
  • 328
  • 5 years ago

Enjoy a morning out our back door… this morning was really cool with the lighting and breeze.

Tagged Hiking, Landscaping, Living Like Vacation
Spring Flowers Bring Positive Outlook During Crisis

Spring Flowers Bring Positive Outlook During Crisis

  • Lifestyle
    3 min
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  • 5 years ago
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As we all know the President and the CDC has requested us to do many things like staying home, and not gathering with groups of more than 10 people for 15 days. Keeping your distance if you go out. Let’s also not […]

Tagged Landscaping, Living Like Vacation

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