Shoes or No Shoes?
Here at Chiot’s Run we’re a no shoes in the house kind of place. We have a shoe rack by the back door and remove our shoes in the laundry room, which is the entrance we use 99% of the time.
I have found that by removing shoes and having a few good absorbent rugs by the back door my floors stay so much cleaner. I don’t have regular rugs by the back door, I have those washable bath rugs. They get washed every other week and they do a wonderful job of keeping dirt and grime off the nice floors in the rest of the house. Of course sometimes my feet are just as dirty as my shoes, so I’m not sure this is quite as effective in the summer.
Are you a no shoes kind of house or do you wear your shoes indoors?
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A Weekend Away
This past weekend I was in Cincinnati with some of my college girlfriends. The group of six become fast friends during the few months our freshman year of college back in 1994 and we’ve been getting together every year since.
It’s a weekend filled with eating, laughing, looking at photos, and staying up too late reminiscing about the good old days when we didn’t have a care in the world and were all living together in dorms and apartments.
We enjoyed a few of Cincinnati’s best like Skyline Chili and Graeter’s Ice Cream and Arthur’s.
It was a great time, it’s always nice to spend some time with old friends.
Do you have any yearly meet-up with old friends?
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Quote of the Day: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
I’ve definitely learned patience through gardening! I believe gardening is about the process not the final product, which is why I don’t buy a lot of mature plants. I prefer to start things from cuttings and spend years nurturing them into beautiful plants or start things from seed.
Has gardening helped teach you patience?
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The Late Summer Garden
It’s can be difficult to find plants that bloom and look nice this time of year. After a long hot humid NE Ohio summer, most plants are looking a little crispy and quite sad. Our lack rain, along with the dry lean soil makes plants look peaked in late August early September. There are a few things that still look stunning and a few things that are starting to come into their season to shine.
The woodland sunflower ‘Helianthus divaricatus’ is blooming along the woodland edge by my garage. It’s quite a lovely wild flower, it really brightens up this shady part of the garden. I must save seeds for this and try to propagate it along the edges of the woods along the entire property.
I’m completely in love with my fuzzy oregano, which is also referred to as the hops flowering oregano, can you see why? The blooms are quite stunning compared to my regular Greek oregano.
The ‘Annabelle’ hydrangea is in it’s top form at the moment. I love it when the blossoms turn this beautiful shade of green, one of my favorite flower colors.
The cosmos are blooming as well, they are volunteers that grew from some cosmos that went to seed last year at the end of the season. They will continue to look good until they’re killed by a heavy frost.
I’m absolutely loving the combo of my fall blooming sedum with the asparagus fern in the front foundation garden. It’s quite a beautiful combo of textures. The sedum will continue to change color and will look beautiful throughout the fall months. I must add more of this to my gardens.
Flowering kale is a wonderful addition to any garden, it will look good long after everything else has died back.
What are you loving in your garden right now?
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Quote of the Day: Thomas Edison
“Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
~Thomas Edison
One of the things I enjoy about gardening is the work involved. Since my job consists of sitting in front of a computer, gardening provides me with the exercise I need to keep me healthy and strong, not to mention lots of fresh food as well. Hard work never makes me back down, I relish the challenge and the physical exertion that comes from gardening. Especially the tasks like double digging new garden beds as I’m doing in this photo.
What about you, do you enjoy the hard work of gardening or could you do without it?
