The weather in Maine has been AWESOME the past few days! Today the temps are supposed to be in the mid 70’s and that’s fine by me. The rest of the fence was installed yesterday. Yee-Haw! They’ll come back and install the gates next week.
I thought they’d be installed when the fence was installed but apparently they wait to make the gates until after the fence is in place so they can get the measurements for the gates right.
Which totally makes sense.
Oh well. That will give me enough time to get the front fence painted and the pin cushion flower border installed on the outside {street side} of the fence.
Part of me really wanted to keep the fence the natural color that it was. But adore white picket fences, they’re so inviting. Plus the studio is white and you know me, I love the color white and I like things to match.
While the fence guys were installing the fence in the front yesterday I was busy painting a portion of the side fence.
My working theory was that if I painted the fence in the morning, the stain would be dry and the HH could get started on planting the arborvitaes once the fence guys left.
It was a fantastic plan! 🙂 He was able to get 6 of them installed before calling packing it in for the afternoon.
We bought the arborvitae trees from Costco about a month ago and ever since they’ve been sitting in our yard waiting for the fence to be installed so we could get them in the ground.
Everyday {that it hasn’t rained} we’ve been out there watering them and it has been such a pain in the keister making sure they didn’t dry out while in the nursery pots.
Normally arborvitae isn’t on my go-to list of plants but I wanted a fast growing evergreen that would create a nice privacy screen between our place and the neighbors.
We bought 12 trees but it looks like we’ll only be able to get 11 in the ground because we have a bird’s nest snuggled in one of the trees!!! How sweet is that?
Bird babies in the tree. A bird’s nest {and more babies on the way??} in the flower pot and twig garland above the door.
The color we chose {last fall} for the colonial door – bird’s egg blue.
Umm… I think we’re going to have to stop calling it “the studio” and instead call it “bird cottage”. I mean, I don’t know how many more signs we need.
Other things I’ll be doing this weekend… Planting zinnia seeds. The packet somehow slipped under the canning cupboard and I just found it yesterday. Whoops!
I also started listening to Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardener so I’ll be listening to that while I work on my giant whale rug.
Well, those are my plans for this weekend – painting, planting and hooking. How about YOU? Do you have anything exciting planned? Anyone going clubbing? Curious minds want to know.
I hope you have a great weekend,
~Mavis
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