About 2 years ago, I picked up some free stools from another member of my local moms' club.  Although I had originally planned to use th...

This post is really long overdue but I have vowed that I will catch up on about 20 posts that are half-written, half-photographed, or just n...

It's kind of like makeover month here.  Or maybe not.  I don't know.  This is a project from early last fall that again... I never b...

This post is about as interesting as watching paint dry.  Get your "pin it" buttons ready! Unfortunately, not all home improvement...

This is quite possibly the best weather DC has ever seen in July and August.  A perfect 78-83 degrees with no humidity - no joke.  My Maine-...

About 5 years ago, Handy Hubby bought me a hummingbird feeder for Mother's Day.  I had wanted one for a while to hang outside our screen...

Although the east coast rain cycle has caused a lot of havoc in a lot of areas, in my backyard, the rain has been welcomed.  Here's how ...

We have LOVED eating on our screen porch for the past two summers.  It was so worth the effort.  I found that we needed a place to store pl...

A few weeks ago, my parents were in town on their way home from their Florida refuge .  Virginia is the perfect stopping point for a second ...

We had some final landscaping done around the screen porch. First though we had to get some leaks in our sprinkler system fixed. Not surpri...

I scored a couple of nice side chairs which checks one more thing off the list of things I'd like to get for the screen porch if I stum...