Hi! I'm new here, like many of us. To those of you who have been here a while, I'm sorry.
I'm an artist, designer, queer lady, mom, and a gardener. I've got opinions about stuff that mostly no one cares about. Anyway, save the bees, wear a mask, and don't let people tell you what to do. I don't make a great first impression (usually too quiet or awkward), so eh? Come back in a week?
#introduction
This garden includes: an established vanilla sundae hydrangea, Russian sage, coreopsis, daylily, coral bells, autumn joy sedum, dark embers sedum, butterfly weed, blazing star, baptisia, pomegranate yarrow, walker junior catmint, blanket flower, salvia, purple coneflower, upright Veronica, anise hyssop, 3 chokeberry shrubs, garden glow dogwood, native grasses, asters, rubeckia and spring bulbs.
Spent the cloudy cooler days of the weekend ripping out plants that need more water than our full sun, acrid, well-drained soil under a spruce tree will provide.
Salvia doesn't transplant well, but I think everything made it. Native plants arrive in 3 weeks to pop in the gaps and hopefully over take the non-native stuff. (I picked bully plants here because nothing wants to thrive so something is better than nothing)
Took the doorbell button off to try and find one I like better- only to find a bit of corrosion on the board under the battery. Cleaned it- now it doesn't work. Apparently the corrosion was required.
Why are good wireless doorbells hard to find? (And I guess more importantly, why was it a fad to cut the wires to the hardwired kind?)
The people want to know, @system76 & @pop_os_official (and by people, I mean @vkc ) do you have any plans for a Pop_os! zip-up or hoodie? It would probably be her favorite article of clothing ever. This is something that gets asked about several times a month in our house.
Alright- it's happening! Our front garden in the drip line of the neighbor's huge spruce tree is getting xeroscaped for pollinators and birds. Almost nothing from the rest of our gardens likes to grow there so blending garden types has been a challenge. I've spent the entire summer planning waterwise perennial combinations that like to bake in dry soil and will provide interest all year with cascading blooms and interesting forms.
Just need to pick the ground cover now. Sedum or thyme?
Not only is it more comfortable to have an air temperature home, the body is more equipped to handle high outdoor temperature if inside isn't an icebox.
And need I mention the climate implications of using an air conditioner like there aren't consequences.
Chatting with people who live in new houses (1980-now) about the oddities of living in an older home is so funny. They look at you like you're a cave person while just explaining that your bedroom doesn't have proper airflow because there aren't any air returns upstairs, so you only run the air outside of the heat of the day, otherwise downstairs is too cold.
"Wow! I need my air conditioning! Haha" vs. Making things in old houses work, just as the 4 generations that came before us did.
Do I know anyone at the Linux Foundation? My wife @jacqui just applied for a production artist position there and we'd love to learn more about it.
(Boosts welcome!)
humble brag
Our house has had broken concrete since before we moved in. We finally got it taken out and upgraded our trip to the garage with a nice brick path. Bonus move is that our deck that sat against the property line got moved so we added quite a bit of extra garden space too. Only took 4 days from start to finish for me to lay this pathway. The most difficult part was making sure the materials arrived at all. I'd do it again. Super easy and very quaint.
Hi there! I'm an artist who makes digital artwork on linux. Designing stuff is fun, and I'd like to help you design something great! If my hands aren't dirty at the end of the day, it was probably a bad day for me.