An Interruption Of Flow

My beautiful red columns are a home owner's insurance design flaw. I have been rejected for insurance by two major insurance companies. Their reasoning is that the open foundation allows easier access for varmints to get in and the water lines are more susceptible to freezing causing water damage.

Well I never.

Let me just say that when I moved here four years ago the house next door with the closed in luxury basement accommodations was infested with mice. I took care of that. Its water lines freeze regular. The only water lines in a cabin without heat that froze were the ones in the wall. None of those in the floor froze. Closing in my basement patio won't help the shower water lines in the wall. The heat tape I added will.

I do have a few takers who will give me home owner's insurance at least.



It was ready, but I did not spend my first night in the cozy cabin last night. I followed my inner voice that said wait just a bit longer. Maybe in a few days?



A cheapo particle board book shelf was bought and assembled. It will do for now. I need places for stuffs. One day it can be replaced with a fine piece of wood furniture.



Some how the bedding, sheets and comforters are a bit off. It is a nice comforter with a Queen Anne's Lace pattern. It works with the floor, but not the blue walls. Maybe I'll have to repaint the loft another color.



It is still a bedroom in progress. At some point I need to build a closet and cabinet shelves for clothes. Right now the stuffs keep spinning around the room. It is not yet permanently set.



It is a work in progress outside as well.

I have planted delosperma and a sedum around my avatar. Both have multiplied, but neither of them have filled in as a short ground cover like I intended. Granted this bed has been rudely disturbed on more than one occasion. Perhaps a geranium will do the trick. Meanwhile I will gladly accept the wild Ox-Eye Daisies.



More permanent and substantial plantings continue to grow larger in this front bed beside the driveway entrance. The Calamagrotis acutifolia 'Avalanche' and Yucca filamentosa 'Bright Edge' have some promise as space fillers.



In the semi wild abandon you sometimes just have to take what you get and hope that it all works together. Pink, yellow and white is good.



My first planting of corn only had 80% germination and it is too late now to fill in the holes. The all important tasseling from a later sowing would be way out of sync. I will have to sex the corn myself anyway in a skinny row like this. I don't need out of sync corn to deal with too.



My lone astilbe, currently anyway, is doing just fine. I must have picked a good spot for it.



Some things just flow naturally. The chicory has filled every bit of bare space in the front roadside bed. I am a bit surprised it hasn't flowed much further yet. I don't think anything would look bad with chicory for a back drop or filler. I just loves my chicory.



Hollyhocks, Verbena bonariensis, Eremurus, Ox-Eye Daisy, Miscanthus 'Morning Light' and Juncus add to the scene right now. It all changes as the summer progresses.



The roadside vegetable garden with the wildflower and daylily surround aims for its peak summer display as the world flows by.



It won't be long now before that flow of traffic is interrupted more and more as cars slow to a crawl or come to stop to marvel at the bountiful chaotic beauty of nature slightly interrupted by the hand of the gardener.