The North End Loft: new lawn

I had such a welcome relaxing day yesterday after the hubbub of the 4th of July.

My day started with some photos of our new front lawn. I had to sandwich between the parked cars on the street, so I only got half of it, but here it is! Our gorgeous green lawn that's watered by our new sprinkler system.

It's the lushest greenest lawn we've ever had, and I can't even begin to tell you how wonderful it is not to be watering it myself.

After shooting a few pictures of the lawn, my husband and I headed for the hills while the morning was still cool for a hike with Tucker.

On the way home from our hike we spied two yard sales, and I got some great stuff to paint and repurpose. Luckily, my husband had some cash in his pockets. He's such a handy guy to have around! I got this waterfall bedside table.

A sewing table I'll turn into an end table.

A cute little phone table.

And some galvanized junk, a tin bucket, and a crusty wire basket. I just love to find things like this unexpectedly. Somehow, it makes them even better.

A bit later in the morning my oldest daughter and her fiance came over to pick up this little maple tree. We've had this pretty slow-growing tree for over twenty years and were sad to see it go. Unfortunately, since our big shade tree was cut down, the sun is scorching it. To save it, it had to go.

We wrapped the root ball in a tarp, and off it went to its new home.

To a shadier spot next to my daughter's new 1950's ranch style house that she's remodeling.

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After putzing around doing a lot of nothing for the afternoon, my youngest daughter made us some spicy shrimp with peach salsa for dinner from my Cooking Light Cookbook. It was the perfect meal for a hot summer evening. (I also found the recipe here, if you'd like to try it.)