March 28, 2012 - Painted walkway & started landscaping

Decided to paint the new entry walkway to coordinate with the existing tile at the front door.

We plan to add some stones along the sides of the walkway (same stones as on front of house).

Second day working on the landscaping.  14 cu. yds of garden soil delivered Tuesday morning and planted what plants we had today.  Have more plants to purchases and lots of mulching.  We seeded the lawn just area immediately around the house, just starting to see very small patches here and there.

Looking for a couple of ornamental evergreen trees to use on each corner of the house.

Agapanthus (Blue Lily of the Nile)

The empty corner space is for the pending fountain.  My Louisiana Iris plants still in pots until the fountain is down and secure.

Work in progress.  Need to fill in on the side of the guest bath/bedroom (shady area along side of house).

Veggie garden is producing.....yeah!  Our first Creole tomatoes.

March 19, 2012 - Patio pavers finished



312 pavers @ 33lbs each makes for muscle aches, but so happy they are all down.

Outdoor kitchen finally moved on to it's permanent site and
 hooked up to gas, water & electric.

Covered Pergola in the plans.

Red Headed Woodpecker posing for a photo.  He was sitting just a couple feet from the edge of our extended patio.

Feb 21, 2012 - Expanding patio & planting a garden

Back patio area prior to grading



Phase 1 of entending our patio with pavers.  More sand required, just waiting for a few rain free days.

Phase 1 after serious rain on Saturday.

Phase 1 of the Daleo garden.  Rocky planted 4 blueberry trees.

Purchased 2 creole tomato plants and 1 bell pepper.  Rock has a lot more work to do with
 the soil before these little guys are planted.

Rocky starting to fertilize a few pecan trees.  Curious to see when we'll actually get a good crop of pecans.  There are approximately 35-40 pecan trees on the property planted by the previous owner.  Unfortunately he hadn't ferterized the trees for a long time.

February 2012

February 10, 2012-    Since our last post in November we've added cement walkway and                     driveway slab connected to the garage.  This week we've had final grating done, top soil and driveway rocks added.

View from front door looking down driveway. 
We had the entrance walkway and garage pad poured in December. 

View from garage pad looking towards driveway entrance.

  

An Eastern Bluebird peeking in the LSU pad.

Our new little friend strikes a pose.

Redbird's wondering where's my house?

One of three Fox Squirrels that hang out with us all the time.

Japanese Magnolia's all in bloom.

Camilia bush

A friend's new colt, just had to share...so cute.

November 19th - We're in just in time to celebrate the holidays!

Saturday, 11/19/11
It's official we moved in October 31st and are still sorting, organizing and painting (touch ups and dings from moving in furniture).  Of course we still have a few big projects pending, more gravel for the driveway, cement drive connecting to the garage, the back deck  and landscaping.  All to be completed in the near future as time and weather permits.

Just a bit of fall decorations while we were unpacking.




Oops didn't mean to be in the picture.





Lighting a bit off in this one.







Master bedroom (Coming soon - new comforter set, curtain rods and sheers throughout the house).

Guest bedroom (the quilt and the picture were gifts from two good friends).

Decisions, decisions....where to hang what?

Hallway to office, guest bath and bedroom

Sunroom, my special place.

Hallway from kitchen to utility room (sunroom on  left and half bath on right).

Gas logs installed just in time for the holidays and working great.

Last night celebrating our "22nd" anniversary at 407 North Restaurant in Covington.