Loving Home

What do you love about where you live?

A baby owl judged us from a snagged sweet gum for weeks. What a joy! If you enlarge photo, you can see his mother feeding him a mouse. He is bigger than she is!

I live on a quiet street in a neighborhood started in the 1970s The best thing is the trees. Built before the current trend of wiping lots bare before building, yards are graced with mighty trees. These lovely beings shade the streets, welcoming all who pass. My yard is well-shaded with tall trees that give the illusion of cool, even in the blistering August heat of Louisiana.

Flagstone patio I built myself! Who knew I could do such a thing?

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  4. I love your neighborhood, it sounds like mine. We live in a neighborhood started in the early 1960’s, and the trees give it a feeling of country living.

    Our bird feeders have all manner of variety, but never an owl! That’s really neat! The closest we came was watching a hawk “eliminate” a dove in our backyard. But that’s rare.
    We even have a chipmunk who now eats peanuts out of my hand. I affectionately call him “Chippypants”.
    Thanks for sharing your neighborhood, and great job on the patio.👍🏻👍🏻

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    • Thank you. I do love the birds. It’s wonderful when they wake me. The flagstone was a birthday gift from my husband. I put landscaping fabric down, transported sand from an area of the yard that gets underwater in heavy rain, then laid the stones piece by piece, puzzle style. It took months, but I got intrigued with it. When I used all the stones, I dusted sand and pea-gravel between. Hubby just maintains it by weedeating. My supply of sand is refreshed every time it rains. I enjoyed doing this pretty much without help. I have clematis and climbing roses growing on the trellis. It is a great bird feeding area. It is swarming with hummers since I have a lot of feeders out. Those hummers are fighty little rascals.

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    • When my daughter lived in St. Petersburg, Fla.there were four nice parks with four blocks any direction. We did a lot of park time. At one park, manatees were common. That blew me away.

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  13. Your yard looks lovely! I recently bought a house in the neighbourhood I grew up in. I guess i love it because it feels like home, but I love having space for a garden and my dog… big windows too. Working on getting more tall trees for privacy!

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  21. Hats off to you my dear friend. Wow, just wow!! I’m impressed with your patio, it’s absolutely amazing. My compliments to you, and the tree, majestic.

    Thank you so much for sharing.

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  24. I was born and raised here in Lake Macquarie all 5 houses I have lived in during my life are in the same area around and I have lived in this house/home since May 1988 and I like living here. I like sitting in my armchair watching the birds outside my front door. What I love most is that all my family are pretty close by, even my though my eldest daughter is a 20-30 minute drive from here she is still close enough.

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  26. I live in a little group of ten bungalows that’s very quiet but with the nicest, kindest neighbours. We have a little cut through used by small children and their mothers on the way to and from school , which is a delight. It’s a small village at the edge of a small town but close to a heritsge pasrk containing the ruins of an Abbey destroyed by Henry VIII, and also close to the mouth on an estuary. The only drawback to living here is that it’s on a hill that feels vertical, no fun at my age, Hugs

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