Garden, New Windows in Old House

Val diligently prepared for a garden in back of our new house this year. It came up well but so far the tomato plants have very few blossoms. It's getting too late in the season for much to develop now. Darn! I wish we had an 8-foot hedge or fence to block our view into the Jones's back yard! His poplar trees are growing well, and I was excited when I saw him out removing the circular fences from around the bottoms, thinking that the lower limbs would fan out and soon be touching across the open spaces. What he did, though, was sawed off all the low branches up to about eight feet! We have an open view of all his stuff.

We decided to have new windows installed across the front of the old house. It changed the looks (lost its old antique "charm"), but hopefully it will make the living and dining rooms more comfortable for the renters.