This was our first Halloween in the Old Vic…we had no idea what to expect, but figured it was a worthy house to have a fun Halloween in and we’d decorate a bit.
In our surburban “blah” house in Garland, Halloween had faded away. The number of kids sliding each year and the effort they put [...]
Halloween was a blast!
The Plant Did it…
One of the fun things about the first year or so of ownership of something like the The Old Vic is all the surprise plants that show up.
At least one of them is an alien.
See this thing?
There was no sign of it when we bought the house…well, maybe a little sign…a small dead space on [...]
Oh Peaches (pictures)
I promised pictures…
The most productive tree…it’s about a 25 footer. It had TONS of large peaches.
This tree is weighed down with them, but they are all very small (very tasty though!)
The bigger tree again…this limb is strained to the breaking point. There are already hundreds on the ground.
YUM!
About 12 pounds or so…
Twenty minutes work racked [...]
Oh…peaches!
Peaches. Lots of ‘em.
There are three peach trees in our backyard at the Old Vic. It’s a bumper crop. They are are bowed to the ground with peaches.
They were not quite ripe last weekend, but many were falling anyway…making it quite interesting when I was weed-eating under the trees…
Bzzzzzzzzzz splat splut splatter SPLUT SPLATTER SPLAT! [...]

