Nature-ific New House

Things have been absolutely crazy around here. Toby and I are keeping our fingers crossed that today will be the first day in the new house that we haven't had strangers tromping through. This week has been full of painters, movers, electricians, plumbers, handy-men and more. Here are a few photos of the plants and animals at the new house...

Here is a mama-bird tending to her baby birds in an old seed-spreader in the garage. Toby was planning on building garage doors already, but we just couldn't shut the mama out of the garage. The babies all took flight this week. They were so cute, just little fluffy things, but all appear to have flown the nest successfully!


We're glad that they left so soon, since the extremely hard rains we had mid-week led to two inches of water in the garage on Friday morning. I was not a happy camper, to say the least. Toby has since installed a wood and gravel water-mitigation system that seems to be doing to trick. Now if it would only stop raining so that we can dry out everything that got wet...

Here are some of our gorgeous roses! These ones are in the back, between the garage and the house. We also have some hostas, grasses, bleeding-hearts and other plants in that area.

Here are our knockout roses in the front yard! They are impressively prolific and just gorgeous. Everyone on our street seems to have these roses, but we have the most by far! We also have lilac, wisteria, lirope, hydrangeas and the remnants of tulips and daffodils in the front yard.

I'm planning to post before and after pictures of the interior soon, just as soon as we have a break to take them. We are having so much fun fixing up the house already!