People often start to tell me about the many t.v. series that they watch each week. I’ve never watched one episode of Game of Thrones, Real Housewives or The Bachelor series – after season 1, so it’s been a while since the bachelor has been on my t.v. screen. While we do have a show or two that we like, we have other interests.
Since I work outside the home, I cherish my free time. I water and trim my plants, hang with the dogs and the yard is my favorite spot to sit and sip coffee while I watch the news. The real news. Not mainstream propaganda. But I digress! My point is that I do not spend a lot of time being hypnotized by the t.v. set. If I died tomorrow, I’d rather spend my day watching birds sing and fly about – because it’s what’s real, rather than sit in front of the mind control machine being spoon fed liberal insanity. (That AOC chick is clearly not well.) Actually, she’s so not well, it makes me think I actually could run for congress one day. I am at least able to write correctly and use proper grammar. I say that because I actually did read the Green New Deal. It looked like a 6th grader on meth wrote it.
I love the ancient art of homemaking and wanted to share a few photos of my summer cottage. (Yes, I am being funny!) Our home is not a cottage, or maybe it is, I don’t know. What is a cottage?
Well, according to Wikipedia…. A cottage is, typically, a small house. It may carry the connotation of being an old or old-fashioned building. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cosy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location. That’s me!
So I guess that means we have a cottage! Our home is one story, not very large and not at all a modern design on the outside. It has white columns, a covered porch across the front with black shutters at the windows. Very old school Americana. Although the interior is sort of Z’Gallerie meets Versaille..(see it here)…the outside was very basic so I decided to have the outside painted the same charcoal gray color as the inside to create the illusion of decorative continuity and drama. It was a cream color with red brick previously, and although it is darker now, it looks richer and helped to give it a more substantial, customized look.
Each spring, I try to make some yard improvements so that it will keep getting fuller and richer. I hate seeing wooden fence so it is my goal to have it all covered eventually with shrubs, trees or flowers.
I enjoy being home very much and still have more projects going on but I am pleased with how many improvements we’ve made in such a short time on the inside as well as the outside.
I am a bird lover and nature lover, so it’s been a treat to be in a scenario again where I can witness a lot of nature up close. Except for snakes. Snakes are disgusting and have no business in the circle of life. In my humble opinion.
