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Mom is here.

Cool ride of the week.27

We haven't had a cool ride for some time. This week, guest blogger Mark (aka Rocco) sent in these photos he took in Birmingham, Michigan - home to MANY cool rides. How about this FINE Morgan Aeromax?

This car would make the Batmobile look like a salt ride.

Here's a picture of the interior I got from the Morgan USA website. Even if you're not into cars, wouldn't you like to sit in that cockpit, take a deep whiff of the leather smell, and just drift into a nice daydream about gliding down the road in this beauty?

Rocco wears a pin every day that labels him a Global Warmer. I have one of those pins, too. I'm going to dig it out and wear it tomorrow. While I pretend my Smart is a Morgan.

For the superchix @ work

Here are some pics of the inside, taken before we got any window shades. Everything looks kind of . . . naked. Here's the formal living room:

Dining room (that artwork on the floor has been hung up now):

Hubby took this pic from the bridge this evening. We can look down and hawk loogies at each other. Ewwww! More artwork that needs to be hung up.

Gulf muhly grass

We're still admiring the yard. A few weeks ago, we showed this picture and I promised you these grassy things (gulf muhly, a Texas native) would fill in. Here they were, just 2 weeks ago, still in their pots:

Here they are now, we look across and see the soft lavender color of them:

They seem to be happy in our yard. So are we!

Before & after

Our yard is finished & looks great. Here is a pic from a day or two before move-in, when we got the fence:

Here's the same shot today. That's a Texas redbud tree in the back corner.
Here's the front again, complete with grass.

I have missed working in the garden for about 8 months now - yanking up that ivy around the tree all summer didn't count. They left us a spot in the back yard to plant kitchen herbs - that's about all I can do - the rest is done!

More on the yard

That's the garden, for our followers across the pond. Here we have more pix of our landscape work. They used some of our old stones to make a path around to the side of the house, and put some nice shrubs around them. Those bushes under the windows have tiny yellow berries.
Along the west side, we had rain barrels installed this week, along with some gizmos called rain tubes that are supposed to keep all the leaves & gunk out of the gutters. We didn't mind cleaning them out at our old, one story house, but there's no way we're climbing up two stories to clean out gutters. Anyway, with the rains we get here, we should be able to water the plants now & then with free water.

Here's a front yard shot. All that mulch they put in really stinks!