Putting the weeds to work for Us

[Buster's Uncle]

Fridge is fine - just too crowded right in front of it.  You actually need a lot of space right in front, to be able to get a convenient look and reach all the crannies in the back w/o pulling a muscle.

Mom can't get the real estate pictures to scroll at their site, so I got her here to look at the exterior shots and the kitchen, at least.  She has this page open right now...

[Geo]

Hi BUncleMom. Hope you are well.

[Buster's Uncle]

Momma says hi back.  [Insert biscuit joke here.]

She is well.

[Buster's Uncle]

[Mylochka]

Hello!  Here's another picture of the trellis BU worked on -- this time without benefit of the mansion-making fish-eye lens. 

My aunt had the ingenious idea of taking some monkey grass that had grown up around the spot where a tree used to be (as shown in the first photo) and putting it in the empty garden spot in front of BU's trellis.  Makes for a nice, lush look for the backyard, I think...

[Buster's Uncle]

She actually did all the work of putting the trellis up, initially.  I supervised (watched; "supervise" is a family joke) and helped a little on staking the left one down - it was at least a couple of weeks later before I took a real interest.

[Geo]

You got a real job of leveling up Mylochka's current 'garden' ahead of you, BUncle...

[Buster's Uncle]

As a matter of fact, that's what SHE said.

[Geo]

I hope there are enough stones at the edge of the property to level Mylochka's garden.

[Buster's Uncle]

I never showed you but two of the rock walls - but there's a lot more.

[Geo]

Its an archeological excavation!

[Buster's Uncle]

Mostly archeology back no later than 1970 - I participated in building a lot of them.

[Geo]

Except for the ant nests!

[Buster's Uncle]

My aunts had nothing to do with those, either.  The ants are no relation.

[Buster's Uncle]

BTW - I figure the low rock walls to terrace hillside land are a cultural influence of the Waldensians.  Those Piedmont valleys and hillsides they immigrated from were steep, and ISTR that they'd done a lot of that in the old country.