Sacramento gets hot. And when it’s 100ºF+ (as it is all this week) you need some respite. Luckily, our neighbors have pools. But we can’t spend every day at the neighbors’ …
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Tag Archives: back yard
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paddling pool
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back side
Last summer, we painted most of our exterior, leaving just the back, and a small adjoining side section. And that’s how it stayed, until this summer …
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rock revival
Our outdoor living space is ‘in transition’…to put it politely. But we recently completed what we’d like to call ‘phase one’ of our landscaping –far from the finished look …
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getting greener
Coming from England, it feels like summer has arrived. But this is spring, and it will get a lot hotter –even hotter than the 105 (or so) degrees we got on our arrival, late last August. Anyhow, our brief winter is firmly in the rear-view, and the landscape is changing. Our cherry tree is filling …
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the bush
This bush (or whatever it is) spans a 40-foot section of our rear exterior wall, and hugs it too tightly for our liking. With termites and other pests posing a big threat to homes like ours, this sucker could potentially conceal any problems. It had to go. So I ripped it out. It took some …
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tree city
Sacramento is nicknamed city of trees, so we were prepared. We just didn’t bank on so many being in our yard. We removed the only real problem tree, as I mentioned, but there are more on our hit-list. And things could have been far worse. This 2011 Google Streetview pic clearly shows the trees had …
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wires
We keep noticing random wires all over the place. Not live electricity, just a legacy of lazy wiring for phones, alarm components etc. No doubt typical for a property of this age, but a trend we’d like to end. So, we set about tackling some of them. The white wire above has been nagging at …
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