Everyone meet Fred. Fred showed up in March and endured a misguided stay in our living room for a night and decided he liked the outside better. Recently he's been spending hours a day in our backyard and has become quite friendly. Tentatively he's the fourth member of our little pack, as long as he decides to stick around. Dexter likes to sit in the window and watch for him and they bat at each other through the window.
This is probably Dexter's favorite spot in the house. With or without his buddy in the backyard.
Onto carpets, we scored our second great deal on a carpet at the Crate & Barrel outlet. I neglected to take a picture of this room when we got the new couch this spring, but it used to have a beige carpet, which didn't really do it for this room. The pattern brings a little needed life to the room. We have some art on order and plans for a DIY art project to further spruce up the cool palette. The beige carpet found a new happy home in the guest bedroom. It's doing a great job covering up the crappy floor.
The fence is down! Our curb appeal used to be negative. We're slowly working our way towards positive. We put in a couple gardens, did some serious work to thin out the day lilies, and finally the chain link fence came down! (*mostly) We're pilot testing not having a fence in the front, but we decided to leave a small portion up on the side of the yard between us and the apartment building. There's a can of spray paint just waiting to spruce that portion of the chain link up until we decide what to do. About the concrete, the City won't pick up the fence pieces unless it's free of concrete. Don't mess with a man holding a Sawzall removing concrete from fence posts. We now have more lumps of concrete in a pile in our backyard. I feel a "rock" sculpture coming on.
Negative curb appeal.
We're looking more respectable!
The result of an hour of yanking it out of the front yard and then Henry hacking it into appropriate sizes for trash pick up.
Random updates: Our garden can't handle the summer heat, plastic knives are decent stakes for setting out the path in the front yard, and our living room is slightly uncluttered for the first time in awhile.
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