P&B’s Garden

It is a Lovely Day for a Guinness

Paul, Chris and Kevon are spending the next 10 days in Ireland !!  The trip started off great with a beer in “My Kind of Town”    Today they visited Guinness and am sure they had many many of these!!

It is all quiet on the homefront at PB Garden.   Today I went shopping with some very special friends at some new shopping places and tonite I am watching a movie with my very special daughter.

I got a text from Paul on Thursday night that said he was in First Class and I was just thrilled to hear this news.  Paul is a kind, generous, caring man, a great father, and a wonderful husband and always deserves first class in our book !!  P, we miss you here at PB Garden but we know you are having the time of your life !!!

Welcome Vonnie

Kevon told me that he set up Vonnie with email so she is our newest follower of life at PB Garden.  I think it is great that everyone near or far from Dallas Fort Worth to Bangkok to Chicago, to Pennsylvania to Scottsdale, to Florida and back can visit us whenever they want to ……..and be part of our home.  Welcome Vonnie !! and see you very soon I hope.

Flashback - “Then and Now”

Every so often we need to go back and look at our progress at PB Garden.  So from time to time I will post Flashback - “Then and Now”.

Paul transformed our ordinary back porch into a Key West Get get-away (inspired by a pub in the Keys called “Grunts”) which we stopped at on our trip with Kevon and Debbie.  So now, everyone can stop by Grunts anytime for a little bit of Key West right here in Bedford at PB Garden !!

Then……

Now

Did you say it was fall?

Fall roses are not uncommon here in Bedford ….. in fact they are the norm.  All our roses are still in full bloom and this Chrysler Imperial and Belinda’s Dream are just perfect.  Had to share. Wish you were here Ma and Dad out of the snow in Chicago !!

Belinda’s Dream - Earth Kind Roses

Inside our table is set for Thanksgiving and ready for the kids to come home in a few weeks.  Looks like fall out the back door as all the leaves have gently fallen around the inpatients.  I love fall and the change of the seasons !!!

Architectural Tour of Homes

Jennifer invited us to go to the Dallas Architectural Tour of Homes on Sunday.  We enjoy getting ideas and like to admire the architecture of other homes.  Chris joined us and we loved riding around in his convertible listening to the Beatles Love through the old neighborhoods by Knox-Henderson.  What lovely homes, so quaint, so many trees and such a nice old feeling in the area.

We stopped at the Belmont Hotel on the way home for wine and and watched the sun go down over Big D…. So, now that we are re-inspired and if the Cowboys and the Mavericks keep losing Paul might get some of his projects done and if not that is ok too, we have plenty of time.   Thanks Jenn, Chris and Paul for such a nice memory.

Fall Pots

I had not been in the yard in several weeks during the daylight and all my pots needed a new look.  I spent Saturday redesigning them for fall.  Love the snapdragons !!  One of my favorites. This pot has sunflowers, marigolds, purple viola and some dusty miller in the back.  The other orange snapdragons and purple viola.

Finally Fall in Bedford

We had not been out in the yard all week during the daylight so we had not noticed that our oak tree had started to turn beautiful fall colors.  Now it is finally fall at PB garden.  What a peaceful time of year.

How I miss Daylight Savings Time

It’s Thursday morning and I rushed out into the yard to see my roses before I left for an early meeting.

Here is what I saw blooming this morning:

ROSES IN PB GARDEN THURSDAY BEFORE WORK

Tonite after a very long day I got home and went out into the yard to check out our roses.

Here is what I saw blooming tonite.

ROSES IN PB GARDEN THURSDAY NIGHT AFTER WORK

HOW I MISS DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME !!!!!!!!!!!

Jack visits PB Garden

Hi Jack !!!

Jack had a seat in the asparagus fern and kept a careful watch over the trick or treaters this Halloween.  Jack looks very stressed out this year even though there were only three trick or treaters.   I was in charge of the door so I made the entry spooky yet delightful for the kids that came for a treat.  Our kids were off to parties or hanging out with friends around town, so it was just P&B at home.

The next morning we looked out at Jack and he looked better and relieved that the night had passed, no more trick or treaters !!! and no work until next year.    Bye Jack, see you in 2009.

Happy Halloween to Everyone - 2008

Fall at P & B garden? Not yet….But almost Halloween !!

I just got back from Maine and it was definitely fall there but here in P&B Garden everything was still green and roses were still blooming.  So, I had to make my own fall for Halloween this Friday so it would be festive for Jack when he visits.  Jennifer was over and being playful in the faux fall color.  Happy Halloween !!!