Flowers fade away and rooms get rearranged

I’ve been getting our garden in order, with vital assistance and encouragement from young Alfie. I’m very pleased with how it is turning out, and looking forward to tasting the fruits (and vegetables) of our labors.

Rats, redux

The exterminator seems to have done the trick, as we’ve seen nary a sign of rats since he visited. Alas, both the exterminator and the city’s environmental services department confirmed that we should avoid birdseed feeders in the future. However, suet feeders seem to be OK, since they don’t result in accumulated seed debris for [...]

Rats!

This morning, while enjoying my coffee, I glanced out the kitchen door at my backyard and marveled at the Disneyesque scene: a pair of Cardinals and a Carolina Chickadee were taking turns at the bird feeder. A rabbit was hippity-hopping across the grass. A chipmunk scampered among the shrubs. I actually let out a blissful [...]

Cultivating my garden

The backyard at our new house is coming together. We got a table and chairs for the deck, and a charcoal smoker, so we can now enjoy delicious meals al fresco. We’ve put out some bird feeders, which have started to attract some plumed patronage. This morning I saw a red-bellied woodpecker at the suet [...]

Housekeeping

Slowly but surely, we’re getting our new house in order. After living in an apartment for 3 years, I’d forgotten just how many small but cumbersome chores homeownership entails. And here, unlike at our Philadelphia house, we’ve got a garden to keep up as well. I look forward to growing some herbs and vegetables, but [...]

Moving woes

Having heard nothing from the moving company since our belongings left San Francisco on June 15th, I gave them a call today to check on the status. They told me that our shipment arrived last week and has been in storage. Of course, they were supposed to call me when it arrived, so that I [...]

Countdown

Today is moving day. I was up pretty much all night with the last minute packing, so I’m about to keel over. But the movers are doing all the heavy lifting today. So far everything is right on schedule and going smoothly.

Closure

The house closing went off without a hitch this morning. So I’m now an official Greensboro tax payer, if not quite yet an actual resident.