New Additions

January is usually a quiet month for us but we've had a flurry of activity lately. Today, we are getting a new roof. That news is painful, but a few other projects bring more joy -

New boulders! For a while now, I've wanted to place larger boulders out front along the street. While they are not huge, they are bigger than the former ones and hopefully will make a bigger statement.

The most exciting event for me was a new gate and arbor. Our older one was getting rickety and the gate itself never closed properly. I've been collecting photos of gates for the past year on Pinterest and kept returning to this one -

I showed this to our handyman, and I was totally amazed that he made it exactly like the photo. I told him it didn't have to be exact, but he not only did that, but he built the entire thing in one day. Happy birthday to me! 

An improvement over the past one. It was a bit sentimental seeing it go. We realized that it was built 10 years ago by the same man. Now, we should really work on the fence...

Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy