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A Garden Grace Note

A new addition to my rooftop retreat. Making limited space look inviting and creative is a real challenge. The solution is solved by someone (not me) who has tools and enjoys using them.

 

 

My New Website

Not your typical web--this one is all designed for the rambunctious morning glories to climb and screen my porch. Once they connect, there will be no editing them from filling up all the space. And this website won't "crash" until fall frost.

Watch this space and see them upload!

 

 

 

 

 

Warnings!

This is what happens to wild kids in Madison, IN:

And this is what happens to wild squirrels on my rooftop:

UNATTENDED SQUIRRELS WILL BE GIVEN FREE PEANUT BUTTER

TRAPPED AND TAKEN TO THE COUNTRY

 

Don't Breathe!

Had a super Christmas visit with Karen and friend Kathryn. The strong odor downstairs still persists; thanks to my landlord, we moved to the Magnolia Inn a block down Main Street to spend our nights. I keep the heat off, my back and front doors are open when I'm here and it is getting better. However we managed to be fed and entertained well by friends and had a casual Christmas dinner here.

Kathryn--eating soup, waiting for heat to come on.

By dinner time we were warm and filled with good beer, fine wine--and I recall a Bloody Mary?!

 

What the Duck!

There has been an addition to the rooftop duck pond. Mama duck has met up with King Dukashen from  Egypt--possibly an excapee from the uprisings there. Who would have ever guessed an Egyptian king could find happiness on a rooftop in Georgetown. And with an unwed Mother Duck!

 Hmm. Even for rubber duckies--happiness is where you find it.

Shaping Up

The construction activity downstairs has slackened off considerably, while waiting for a possible business to move in. Yesterday the windows were installed.

And my excuses for ignoring the dust have diminished so I've cleaned and dusted, rearranged and settled in for the winter. Books, art materials and photos still are tucked everywhere however. At least my reading nook looks presentable once more.

Bathroom Cabinet Meeting

My bathroom is small and boring, so after my shower this morning, I decided to skip dance and  began drawing marchers carrying "Occupy Wall Street" signs outside the medicine cabinet and police standing on the other side of the cabinet with bully clubs. All are headed into the cabinet labeled Wall Street.

F.Y.I. there are no drugs or meds in the cabinet for them to confiscate--I don't use either.

Hmm---it's not even winter yet--what will this place look like when I am snow/ice bound? May not be a problem. If my landlord sees this, I may no longer occupy Main Street!

 

Still a work in progress, but this should give you an idea what I'm doing.

First Attempt

Lots of pounding, grinding, chipping and ripping  from workmen downstairs resulting in my being off in a cloud dust in my loft.

Escaped it last Saturday by being in a show in Oxford. Sold a couple of photos and have now downloaded my first iPhone photo to this blog.

Easy!

The Last of the Summer Vines

Took advantage of the warm weather to take a walk, clean out the mini garden and have a beer on the rooftop. The morning glories went into mourning and were cut down--only a mum plant survives outside.

But the sparrows continue to devour 20 pounds of seeds every week so life goes on.

Out the Door

Am leaving tomorrow for a week in Chicago. Work continues in the spaces below--windows are now removed and boarded up and efforts continue on restoring the bricks--this building was built in the 1870's.

My departure is well timed since workmen will be widening my entrance and replacing the door--something that requires boarding up my loft for awhile. Better to be kept out than be locked in--works for me!

Have you noticed that my life keeps getting seedier and seedier?