Francis Bacon the painter?
Yes. He's played by Sir Derek Jacobi.
'Just Rewards (2)'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Francis Bacon the painter?
Yes. He's played by Sir Derek Jacobi.
Thanks for the good wishes, y'all. I have a feeling I'm going to need a lot of headpats and confidence building in the next month or so. I posted some more details and pics to my lj here: [link]
If it's any consolation, I can't imagine something as life-important as home acquisition being any less than stressful, if you're doing it right. If you're going into this with a Paris Hiltonian-la-dee-dah attitude, that would be a problem!
:: pauses to hughughug her little house ::
Yesterday I planted some lavender and jasmine. I hope they live. So far, I brought the roses back to life and my impatiens are like, superradioactive monstrosities, but I've managed to kill everything else.
Trying to figure out what thrives in a part sun, dry climate.
Allyson, you should totally xeriscape.
Timelies all!
I'm so tired of being tired, it's not funny.
There are dozens of things on my list and yet I am watching tennis. I would ask why, but the answer is obvious.
brenda - good luck. And the bathroom is sort of what we want to do to our bathroom.
Allyson I have a book put out by East Bay MUD ( municipal utilities district) which is obviously for here - but I'll look through it and see if there are good suggestions.
eta: mexican sage is a good one - but it tends to take over . But birds bees and butterflies like it. There are some colorful grasses out there - If you need them to stay small there are some that grow in mounds and don't grow very big.
Many bunchgrasses are native to California, too, which is nice.
I'm on tape delay with the tennis. Might get something done after, I don't know.
I'm watching a repeat of Gil Mayo mysteries and there was a little Buffista like cross-conversation about appropriate use of apostrophes.