Poppa's Projects

We have had some very hot weather lately and I couldn't resist posting this......

..... picture of the bears in their sunsuits - trying to keep cool!  But, as suggested in the title of this blog, I think it is time to catch up with Poppa and his projects!  Remember we bought this condo because it was "move-in ready"?  Well, not when you're living with Poppa!  I guess we'll start with the flowers I showed you briefly in an earlier post.  When we moved here we had............

....... we had small flower beds on both sides of the walkway to the front entrance.  As you know Poppa replaced the flower bed on the garage side (left in the picture) with paving stones so that the rain or melting snow would run away from the garage foundations and out to the lawn.  This spring he wanted to put flowers at the front, but didn't want to have to be bent over all the time, pulling weeds.  So..........

....... under Squeegie's close scrutiny (he moved a stool from the kitchen).........

........... Poppa carefully put.....

 paving stones in the other flower bed too.  Then he mixed up some cement mixture  ..........

...... and filled the little gap between ............

.......... the landscape ties and the paving stones.  Then he began placing.....

......... his planters in strategic places to enhance the entrance... and when he was finished.........

...... it looked quite appealing!  I was heading to the back yard to take a picture of the plants back there for you, but.....

........ I was distracted by this little visitor on the fence.  He actually seemed to pause and strike a pose for me!  The picture isn't very clear because I didn't want to open the sliding door and scare him away - but he is a perfect example of his species!  One more project (a much smaller one!).............

......... was cleaning some golf balls and putting his distinctive red ring around each one to identify it as his.  Who knew golfers actually washed their golf balls? Leave it to Poppa!  Speaking of unexpected things.............

.......... I noticed Poppa at a neighbour's place one day.  On further investigation....

........ I discovered that the owner (a very nice lady) had asked him about painting her front porch.  She had bought some paint, but it wasn't sticking properly and she came to ask him what to do about it - since she had noticed that he repaired and painted our front porch.  Typically, he offered to do it for her!  Then he headed back to our place..........

.... where his flowers were looking lovely - as well as the work he had done on our next door neighbour's flower beds.  But............

........ why did he take my kitchen cupboard door off????